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NEWSLETTER
1 April 2015
Photograph by and courtesy of David J. Anchundia
Number 65
Blue Footed Booby and Marine Iguana on rocks overlooking the Pacific Ocean in the Galápagos Islands. See pages 3 and 25 of this Newsletter for information about the three day symposium on the Galápagos Islands.
Annual Meeting of the Pacific Division of AAAS
including the
California Academy of Sciences
Northwest and Southwest Regions of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society
being held on the campus of the
SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA
14 – 17 June 2015
T
he AAAS, Pacific Division begins its Centennial Year
Celebration with its 96th annual meeting this June at San
Francisco State University, San Francisco, California. The
Division is especially pleased to welcome participants from
the Northwest and Southwest Regions of Sigma Xi, The
Scientific Research Society to our annual meeting. We take
pleasure in acknowledging San Francisco State University,
Sigma Xi, and the California Academy of Sciences as contributing sponsors of the meeting.
The Division’s Program and Special Events Committee
and the local Program Committee on the SFSU campus have
been hard at work assembling a program of exceptional
scientific merit and interest. All scientists, including
professors, teachers, students, and others, are invited to
present the results of their research either orally or as
posters at this meeting. All registrants for the meeting may
attend all of the technical sessions as well as participate
in the many other activities that are being planned. Some
activities, notably field trips and selected workshops, require
see ANNUAL MEETING, page 11
2015 – Celebrating Our Centennial Year Meetings – 2016
Number 65
2015 Meeting Announcement......................................1
San Francisco State University...................................2
Report on the 2015 AAAS National Meeting.............3
Report on the Council Meeting...............................10
California Academy of Sciences..................................5
Leviton Student Research Award Winner Reports
Amber E. Cirovolo.....................................................7
Hiromi Uno.................................................................9
Annual Meeting Information
Societies and Sections Sponsoring Sessions...........11
Registration..............................................................11
Meeting Housing on Campus..................................13
Meeting Housing off Campus.................................13
Food on Campus......................................................13
Travel to the Meeting...............................................13
Parking on Campus.................................................13
Registration Center..................................................16
Meeting Rooms.........................................................16
Times and Locations of Presentations....................16
Computers and PowerPoint....................................16
Call for Papers and Abstracts...........................16, 32
Abstract Preparation...............................................16
Abstract Submission................................................17
Student Awards for Excellence...............................17
Special Events...........................................................18
Public Lectures.........................................................20
Workshops................................................................20
Field Trips.................................................................21
Symposia...................................................................24
Contributed Papers..................................................30
Poster Sessions..........................................................30
Program Organizers................................................31
Call for Papers and Abstracts...........................16, 32
Call for Symposia and Workshop Proposals
for the 2016 San Diego Meeting............................33
On-Campus Housing Registration Form...............34
Advance Meeting Registration Form.....................35
Pacific Division Publications and Book Sale............38
Map of SFSU Campus...............................................39
This Newsletter © 2015 by the AAAS, Pacific Division, All rights reserved.
Cover photo photographed by and courtesy of David J. Anchundia,
(Consultant, Charles Darwin Foundation,
Mangrove Finch Project, Galapagos, Ecuador).
Other photos, unless otherwise credited,
provided by Roger G. Christianson.
Number 65, rev. 4
Published biannually in January and April.
For information on advertising or to submit articles for inclusion,
contact Roger Christianson by e-mail: [email protected]
or by phone: 541-552-6747.
San Francisco State University
CONTENTS
AAAS, Pacific Division Newsletter
Cesar Chavez Student Center
on the SFSU Campus.
San Francisco State University
T
he forerunner of San Francisco State University, the California State Normal School, was
founded in 1862 in San Francisco. Two subsequent name changes and three changes of location
within the city brought the institution to its present
130 acre campus in southwest San Francisco in
1954. It received University status in 1972.
San Francisco State University is part of the
23 campus California State University—the
largest system of public higher education in the
country—and is a multipurpose coeducational
institution with more than 30,000 students and
1800 faculty members. More than 93 percent
of the students come from within the State of
California, 22 percent of whom are from the San
Francisco Bay Area. Through its eight schools,
Behavioral and Social Sciences, Business,
Creative Arts, Education, Ethnic Studies, Health
and Human Services, Humanities, and Science and
Engineering, the University offers undergraduate
and graduate instruction for professional and
occupational goals as well as liberal arts education.
Bachelor’s degrees are offered in 115 academic
areas, master’s degrees in 95 areas, and doctorate
degrees in special education (in cooperation
with UC Berkeley) and Educational Leadership
(Ed.D.). Also offered is an M.S. in physical therapy
leading to a clinical doctoral degree (D.P.T.) and
a joint research doctorate with UC San Francisco
see HISTORY, page 4
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GALÁPAGOS
SYMPOSIUM
PLANNED for the
ANNUAL MEETING
Description begins on page 25.
Executive Director’s Report on the
181st National Meeting of AAAS,
Including the Council Meeting
12 – 16 February 2015
San José, California
A full listing of presenters and their abstracts should be available on the Division’s
SYMPOSIA web page, http://associations.
sou.edu/aaaspd/2015SANFRANCISCO/Symposia15.html, by the fourth week in April.
The following individuals have confirmed their
interest in presenting:
he 181st national meeting of AAAS was held recently in the San Jose McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California.
You may remember my comments the last couple
of years about the cold, snowy, stormy weather that
surrounded the annual meetings. This year could have
been more of the same, with record snowfalls being
recorded in Boston and much of the eastern seaboard
being pummeled with storm after storm. However,
this being the west coast year for the meeting, we were
greeted with weather in the mid-60s and sunny skies.
While that didn’t do much for the draught California
is in the midst of, it did brighten the spirits of meeting
attendees.
Thursday morning, my colleagues from the Arctic
and Caribbean Divisions and I had the opportunity to
report to the AAAS Board of Directors on activities of
the Divisions during the previous year, plans for this
new year at the end of our time, a brief discussion of
how the Divisions might help to further the mission
of AAAS as the organization goes through the
implementation phase of its re-invisioning process.
You may have noticed that I didn’t mention SWARM,
the Southwest and Rocky Mountain Division. More
will be said about SWARM at the end of my report on
the Council meeting, which begins on page 10 of
this Newsletter.
Although there were many activities scheduled on
Wednesday and all day Thursday, the Annual Meeting
was officially called to order Thursday evening with
the fanfare and feasting that Annual Meeting attendees
have become accustomed to over the years. After
several introductions, AAAS President Gerald R. Fink
(Margaret and Herman Sokol Professor of Genetics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology) kicked off the
meeting with his Presidential Address, followed by
Kate Huyvaert (Colorado State University,
Fort Collins)
Robert W. Tindle, et.al. (University of
Queensland, Brisbane, Australia)
David J. Anderson, et.al. (Wake Forest
University)
Amy Macleod (University of Bielefeld, Germany)
Sarah Knutie (University of Utah)
Arkhat Abzhanov (Harvard University)
George Heimpel (University of Minnesota)
Maxine Zylberberg (UC San Francisco)
Richard Knab (Galápagos Conservancy)
Swen Lorenz (Charles Darwin Foundation,
Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos)
Terri J. Maness (Louisiana Tech University)
Patricia G. Parker (University of Missouri St. Louis)
Kenneth Petren (University of Cincinnati)
Elizabeth Hennessy (University of Wisconsin,
Madison)
William H. Durham (Stanford University)
Matthew J. James (Sonoma State University)
Kim Engie (University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill)
Jen Jones (Galapagos Conservation Trust)
César Viteri Mejía (Conservation International,
Puerto Ayora, Santa Cruz, Galápagos)
Mike Jackson (St. Michaels University School,
Victoria, BC)
Sandra Jiménez Noboa (Universidad Autónoma
de Madrid - Spain)
Susana Cardenas (Charles Darwin Foundation)
Alex Hearn, et.al. (Turtle Island Restoration
Network)
Bruce D. Barnett (Environmental Consulting &
Regulatory Compliance Services)
Natasha Sherman (Indiana University)
Paul Wolf (Utah State University)
Brian Arbogast (University of North Carolina)
Christine E. Parent (University of Idaho)
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see DIVISION ACTIVITIES, page 8
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HISTORY, from page 2
announcements
2015 and 2016 are notable
milestones in the life of the
Pacific Division!
The Pacific Division of AAAS was formed as a
result of the call by AAAS for help in organizing
its 1915 meeting in San Francisco. The AAAS
constitution was emended in 1914 to accommodate divisions. That same year, the by-laws of
the Pacific Division were approved by vote of the
AAAS Council. In 1915, the fledgling Division
participated in the San Francisco AAAS meeting. The following year, the Division struck out
on its own by holding its first annual meeting in
San Diego. This year’s meeting brings us back to
San Francisco for the beginning of our centennial
year celebrations. Next year, we will meet again
on the campus of the University of San Diego as
a culmination of our centennial year celebrations.
TEACHERS K – 14
The first ten K – 14 teachers to register in advance (meeting registration received no later
than 31 May 2013) for this meeting will receive,
upon request, a $75 stipend to help defray their
costs to attend! This stipend is not available to
those who register on-site for the meeting. A
$75 check, if requested, will be included with
your registration materials at the Pacific Division
Meeting Registration Center.
Judges Sought for
Student Presentations
Student presentation judges are being sought for
both oral and poster presentations at the Division’s annual meeting. Previous experience evaluating student presentations is desirable for individuals who haven’t previously judged at a Pacific
Division meeting. Judges must be available for
an organizing meeting Sunday evening, 14 June,
and be available to judge presentations Monday
and/or Tuesday, 15 and 16 June. For additional
information, please contact Dr. Roger Christianson, 541-552-6747 or [email protected]. If you
are interested in helping with this very important
aspect of the annual meeting, be sure to mark
the appropriate box on the Advance Registration
Form (on page 35 of this Newsletter) and you
will be sent an application.
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for licensed physical therapists (D.P.T.Sc.).
The focal point of the campus is the Student
Union. With its two dramatic leaning pyramids,
it is a campus landmark. The Union houses a
number of restaurants, a pub-coffee shop, meeting
rooms, and a game center. The major academic
buildings cluster around the Union, on the
edges of a grassy quadrangle. The Creative Arts
complex is the largest facility of its kind in San
Francisco. It contains four theaters, a concert hall,
music and drama rehearsal areas, and one of the
largest television and radio production facilities
in northern California. The Science complex
features a modern planetarium, marine biology
research facilities, herbarium, vertebrate museum,
bioacoustic laboratory, greenhouses, extensively
equipped physics and chemistry laboratories, and
computer science facilities.
The University Library houses more than 1.1
million titles and subscribes to almost 5,000 print
periodicals and scholarly journals and 22,000
electronic journals. It also houses the Frank V.
de Bellis Collection of Italian culture. The Sutro
Library, with its special collections of historical
materials, is situated in a modern building on the
north edge of campus.
In addition to the Romberg and Tiburon Centers,
the University has two other off-campus field
centers for special study; Moss Landing Marine
Laboratory, on Monterey Bay, 100 miles south
of San Francisco, and the Sierra Nevada Field
Campus in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. The
San Francisco State University downtown center,
located in the heart of the city, offers classes for
personal and professional development, as well as
meeting and conference facilities.
San Francisco State University is a multipurpose
institution of higher education located in a large,
diverse urban setting. Excellence in teaching is the
University’s primary mission and distinguishing
feature, although commitments to research and
service to the community are high priorities.
The University enjoys the advantage of being
in one of the most exciting and cosmopolitan
cities in the world. It is just minutes away from the
San Francisco Zoo, Ocean Beach and Cliff House,
Golden Gate Park, California Academy of Sciences
and Steinhart Aquarium, De Young Museum of
Fine Arts, Strybing Arboretum, Japanese Tea
Garden, Exploratorium, and many other nearby
museums. It is also less than 20 minutes away from
downtown San Francisco, with its numerous fine
shops, Fisherman’s Wharf, Telegraph Hill (and its
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spectacular view of the
Bay and the Golden Gate
Bridge), and numerous
other points of interest.
The San Francisco
climate
during
June
should be mild, with
temperatures not much
above 73°F (23°C) or
below 50°F (10°C). Fog
is always a possibility
and participants should
be prepared for cool as
well as warm weather.
STUDENTS TAKE
NOTE!
The Pacific Division has a website for
students, called STUDENTS ONLY! Its
address is http://associations.sou.edu/
aaaspd/Students/Students.html. On it
you will find links to information about
•the AAAS, Pacific Division Alan E. Leviton Student Research Awards
•travel grants to help support students
traveling to present their research at
annual meetings of the Pacific Division
•the Pacific Division student oral and
poster presentation awards program
•winners of previous student presentation competitions
•additional news of interest to students
California Academy of Sciences,
circa 1895.
California Academy
of
Sciences1
San Francisco burns following the great earthquake in 1906.
Public Domain
hree years after the state of California was
admitted into the Union, several men met on
the evening of 4 April 1853 to discuss “the founding of an Academy for the
development and study of
natural phenomena.”1 On
the following 16 May a
constitution was adopted,
bringing into being what
was then called the Academy of Natural Sciences.
In 1868 the institution’s
name was changed to the
Academy of Sciences, later renamed the California
Academy of Sciences.
California Academy of Sciences
The Academy was following 1906 earthquake.
first located in a small
building at 174 Clay Street, but soon moved to
an abandoned Baptist church on the southwest
corner of California and Dupont Streets, where
their meetings and lectures soon attracted public
interest. Drawing on donations of land and money
from James Lick (of Lick Observatory fame), a
six story stone building was constructed at 819
Market Street, with occupancy occurring in 1891.
By this time the Academy had become one of the
California Academy of Sciences
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Research grants of up to $750 are available to students residing in the Pacific
Division’s geographical boundaries. But
you must apply for this by 1 May 2015!
Information can be found at http://associations.sou.edu/aaaspd/Students/
StudentResearchGrants.html
or
click
the Research Award link on STUDENTS
ONLY!
Travel grants of up to $150 to help support student travel to the annual meeting are available.....but you must apply
no later than 1 May 2015! Information
can be found at http://associations.sou.
edu/aaaspd/Students/TravelGrants2010.
html. Or click on the Travel Grant link
on STUDENTS ONLY! Up to ten grants
are available this year and they will be
awarded based on need.
Awards of Excellence are given to students who make outstanding presentations
at the Pacific Division’s annual meetings.
Awards include money and certificates.
But you must present your own research
in order to be in the competition pool
to receive one! Information can be found
at
http://associations.sou.edu/aaaspd/
Students/StudentAwards.html or click
the Student Awards link on STUDENTS
ONLY!
see HISTORY, page 6
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HISTORY, from page 5
Tim Griffith, California Academy of Sciences
West’s most popular destinations, hosting 80,000
visitors a year.
The 1906 earthquake and fire proved disastrous
for the Academy. Fortunately, the fire didn’t reach
the Academy’s building until the second day,
which provided time for the removal of limited
numbers of books, some old records, a complete
set of publications, and a very limited number of
specimens. Everything else was lost in the fire. Just
prior to the fire, a group of seven scientists set sail
for the Galapagos aboard the Schooner Academy.
The materials they returned with became the core
of the Academy’s post-fire collections.
In 1910 the citizens of San Francisco voted
to allow the Academy to relocate into Golden
Gate Park. The new building was completed and
opened to the public in September 1916. Over the
decades, the facility grew to include the Steinhart
Aquarium (1923), Simson African Hall (1934),
Science Hall (1951), the Morrison Planetarium
(1952), the Swamp (1963), the Fish Roundabout
(1977) and more.
The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake caused
major structural damage to the building, leaving
the Academy in need of a new beginning.
The Academy took advantage of this unique
opportunity and rethought the Academy and the
entire museum-going experience. The result
was the closure of the Academy in 2003 and the
moving of many exhibits to a temporary location
at 875 Howard Street to allow for the razing and
construction of an entirely new facility designed
for the 21st century. After razing all but two walls of
the African Hall, construction on the new, almost
$500,000,000 structure began in September, 2005.
The grand reopening of the Academy was 27
September 2008.
The California Academy of Sciences is now
a cutting-edge research and museum facility
residing in the largest LEED (Leadership in
Energy and Environmental Design) Platinumrated (the highest rating) building in the world.
It is also the largest green museum in the world.
Although the Academy is now a single structure,
it contains multiple venues, including a 500,000
gallon aquarium, an all-digital planetarium, the
Kimball Natural History Museum and a 4-story
rainforest. In addition, there’s a new 3-D theater,
a lecture hall, a Naturalist Center, two restaurants,
an adjacent garden and aviary, a roof terrace, and
an Academy store.
The Academy is home to more than 40,000
animals, more than six times the number calling
the Academy home in the previous collection
of buildings. The new building also houses the
Academy science labs and administrative offices,
including an extensive library and scientific archive
consisting of more than 20 million specimens.
The Pacific Division of AAAS has had a longstanding relationship with the California Academy
of Sciences. Staff scientists and administrators at
the Academy have served as Executive Directors
(previously called Secretary-Treasurers) of the
Pacific Division for 72 of the 100 years that the
Pacific Division has existed (1919 – 1927, Winthrop
W. Sargeant, Administration; 1946 – 1973, Robert
C. Miller, Zoology; 1973 – 1975, Robert T. Orr,
Mammology/Ornithology; 1975 – 1998 and 2001,
Alan E. Leviton, Herpetology/Biogeography).
That honor has been shared by only four other
institutions: University of California, Berkeley
(1916 – 1918, Albert L. Barrows, Zoology),
Stanford University (1928 – 1929, Arthur G.
Vestal, Biology; 1930 – 1942, James M. Luck,
Biochemistry), University of Montana (1998 –
2001, David E. Bilderback, Plant Physiology)
and Southern Oregon University (2002 – present,
Roger G. Christianson, Biology) over the lifetime
of the Division. Thus, it’s no surprise that, as the
Pacific Division again meets in San Francisco, the
California Academy is alongside the endeavor and
contributing substantially to the program. J
Information for this section was excerpted from a) an article by J.
D. Gunder, “North American Institutions Featuring Lepidoptera,”
Entomological News, Vol. 40, April, 1929 No. 4 and b) the
following web page of the California Academy of Sciences: http://
www.calacademy.org/academy/about/timeline.php. The California
Academy has since removed this web page and replaced it with
a differently organized one that contains different aspects of the
Academy's history at http://www.calacademy.org/our-history.
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Front entrance to the California Academy of Sciences.
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ALAN E. LEVITON STUDENT RESEARCH AWARD REPORT
Origin of Glass Shards
from Pinnacle Point, South Africa
Amber Elizabeth Ciravolo
Department of Geoscience
University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada
Ms. Ciravolo is one of two recipients of the 2013 AAAS, Pacific Division
Alan E. Leviton Student Research Award. Dr. Eugene Smith is her advisor.
Microscopic photos provided by Ms. Cirvolo.
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unding received from AAASPD was used for supplies to help stock the cryptotephra extraction lab at UNLV for use
in the project of locating volcanic glass shards from archaeological deposits at Pinnacle Point cave 5-6 in Western
Cape, South Africa. $525 was used to obtain 1 liter of Lithium Metatungstate for use in heavy liquid separation. The
remaining $75 went towards buying consumable supplies for the lab, including centrifuge tubes, and HCl for use in the
separation process.
At the time of the award and the AAASPD conference in Las Vegas, preliminary work on the project revealed several
small rhyolitic glass shards with chemistry similar to the Youngest Toba Tuff (YTT) from within sedimentary deposits
around 70-75 ka. If the rhyolitic material formed a layer within the sediment (a cryptotephra or “invisible” layer), it
could be used as a relative dating tool to corroborate the OSL (Optically Stimulated Luminescence) ages for the site
and, if from Toba, would be the most distal deposit of the YTT found to date. Work so far on the project has included
using acid and heavy liquid separation to better isolate rhyolitic glass shards from samples from PP5-6, microprobe
analyses on the rhyolitic glass shards, opal-like grains, and phytoliths, further sampling of the site (PP5-6), and Raman
and Infrared spectroscopy of the opal-like grains.
Further work has shown that the quantity of volcanic glass shards within the sedimentary deposits is extremely low
at PP5-6, below the usual limit for considering it a cryptotephra layer. However, some recent publications discussing
cryptotephra in sand dunes and archaeological deposits have used quantities similar to what is found in PP5-6.
Besides rhyolitic glass shards, another interesting material was discovered in the
sediment. This opal-like material has an appearance similar to the rhyolitic glass but
microprobe analyses show that it is mostly silica
with a few percent of aluminum and sodium.
Due to the discovery of this material, the project
has taken several interesting turns. Preliminary
rhyolitic glass counts included opal-like material
since the two cannot be definitively distinguished
from each other without doing chemical analyses.
Because of this, the shard frequency profiles used
to determine where a cryptotephra layer might be
located showed a broad distribution that is usually BSE image of one of the analyzed
interpreted as mixing or some sort of disturbance rhyolytic glass shards.
of the sedimentary deposits. Discovering the
opal-like grains and removing them from the profiles has revealed a distinct peak
where rhyolitic glass shards have been found. Future work includes isolating more
rhyolitic shards from this area for analysis to better determine if they are from Toba
Image of an analyzed opal grain under
and collecting samples from other sites to see if the shards are present elsewhere and
plain light.
if they can be found in greater quantity. J
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DIVISION ACTIVITIES, from page 3
the grand Presidential Reception. A flurry, nay, fullblown blizzard of activities occurred in the following
days, as the meeting hit San Jose with full force. Of
particular interest were the daily plenary lectures,
featuring Daphne Koller (President and Co-Founder of
Coursera) presenting her talk, The Online Revolution:
Learning Without Limits, David Baker (Professor of
Biochemistry, University of Washington), presenting
his talk, Post-Evolutionary Biology: Design of Novel
Protein Structures, Functions, and Assemblies, Karl
Deisseroth (D.H. Chen Professor of Bioengineering
and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford
University) presenting Optical Deconstruction of
Fully-Assembled Biological Systems, and Neil Shubin
(Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy,
University of Chicago) presenting Finding Your Inner
Fish. These plenary lectures were complemented by a
number of topical lectures: Human Genome Sequence
Variation and Disease by David Altshuler (Executive
VP of Global Research, Vertex Pharmaceuticals);
Humans are Intent Detectors: Implications for Society
by Susan T. Fiske (Eugene Higgins Professor of
Psychology and Public Affairs, Princeton University);
Science: Why Should They Believe Us? by Naomi
Oreskes (Professor of the History of Science,
Harvard University); Antimicrobial Resistance: A
Rising Global Threat by Sally Davies (Chief Medical
Officer and Chief Scientific Adviser, Department
of Health, U.K.); Emerging Concepts in Chronic
Traumatic Encephalopathy by Ann McKee (Professor
of Neurology and Pathology, Boston University
School of Medicine); The Science of Grammar and
Vice Versa by Geoffrey Nunberg (Adjunct Professor
of Information, University of California, Berkeley);
Darwinian Evolution and Human Race by Paul
Farber (Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Modern
Life Sciences, Intellectual History, Oregon State
University); and Why Science In, With, and For Africa
Matters by (Naledi Pandor (Minister of Science and
Technology, South Africa). Accompanying these
talks were 160 or so symposia covering a plethora
of subjects as well as twenty-two career workshops,
a full schedule of section meetings, and a variety of
receptions and other programs.
AAAS Membership surprised many people in
the exhibit hall Friday morning with a Member
Appreciation Breakfast from 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.
The buffet service included a nice selection of eggs,
sausages, bacon, pastries, a variety of juices, coffee
and tea. We were especially delighted because the setup was right in front of the Pacific Division booth, the
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most perfect
placement
they
could
have
done
in the entire
exhibit hall!
Membership
continued
to
surprise
everyone
with
food
at
two
additional
Member appreciation breakfast.
times during
the day. Thank you Ian and the entire Membership
crew!
By the way, did I mention that the Division had a
booth at the meeting, continuing our tradition since
the national meeting in Boston in 2002? As usual, it
was staffed by AAASPD Executive Assistant Angie
Christianson. Since she is in charge of the booth,
she also gets to decorate it. With out meeting in San
Francisco this year, the theme was Chinatown, with
dragons, lanterns, fans, etc., adorning the bare curtains
of the booth. If you take a close look at the photo,
you’ll see not only those decorations, but also stacks
of books from the Division’s publications program.
We were able to give away for free (yes, for free–see
page 38 of this Newsletter if you’d like to get in
on some of the freebies) a total of 147 copies from a
selection of ten of our titles in stock. These were gone
by the mid-point in the meeting, so we could have
given away a lot more, but neither did we bring them
with us nor would we have been able to get them into
the exhibit hall due to union rules regarding bringing
materials in. Fortunately, I didn’t know the rules when
we unloaded and was not pinned down until all of
the boxes of books were in our booth. Whew! We are
planning to bring more books for free distribution to
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ALAN E. LEVITON STUDENT RESEARCH AWARD REPORT
Thermal Heterogeneities Induce Phenological Asynchrony
of Prey Subsidy, and Increase the Trophic Efficiency
of Recipient Food Web
Hiromi Uno
Department of Integrative Biology
University of California, Berkeley, California
Ms. Uno was the recipient of the 2014 AAAS, Pacific Division Alan E. Leviton
Student Research Award. Dr. Mary E. Power is her advisor.
Photos provided by Ms. Uno.
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n the natural environment, there is considerable spatial heterogeneity in temperature. Since phenologies of many organisms are
influenced by the temperature, thermal heterogeneity in the environment sometimes leads to seasonal asynchrony of organisms
across habitat patches. Phenological asynchrony of organisms may prolong and strengthen certain species interactions which otherwise
would be ephemeral and weak.
The mayfly Ephemerella maculata rears and emerges from sunlit mainstem rivers, flies into dark, unproductive tributaries,
oviposits, and dies. While each adult E.maculata lives only for a few days, the migration of adult E.maculata to tributaries lasts for
about a month due to their asynchronized emergence from the mainstem. Their mass migration subsidizes tributary predators that
would otherwise be food-limited. Field manipulative experiment has shown that the one month long resource subsidy by E.maculata
in summer significantly increases the growth of the juvenile steelhead rearing in the tributaries (Uno and Power unpublished). We
hypothesized that spatial heterogeneity of water temperature in the mainstem river causes the spatial variation in the emergence timing
of E.maculata, leading to asynchronous E.maculata adult migration to tributaries, and that the prolonged resource subsidy increases the
trophic efficiency, and consequently the total growth of juvenile steelhead trout over summer.
In sunny channel of the South Fork Eel River in Northern California, we have detected up to 5º C differences in daily maximum
temperature within a 300 meter reach during summer low flow. In 2014, I investigated the effect of the spatial variation in the water
temperature in the mainstem river on the emergence timing of E.maculata by incubating 600 individual E.maculata nymphs in flowthrough buckets placed in various parts of the mainstem river channel with different temperature, and monitoring when E.maculata
emerge from the buckets. E.maculata nymphs were naturally distributed at all reaches we conducted experiment, and the nymphs
used for the experiment were captured at each location. E.maculata
incubated in warmer reaches emerged 1-3 weeks earlier than the ones
incubated in cooler reaches of the mainstem At each location the
emergence lasted approximately two weeks, while overall emergence
from the mainstem was twice as prolonged, due to asynchronous
temperature-mediated emergence. The adult E.maculata migration
were observed in the tributaries for four weeks for the same period
while E.maculata emerged from the buckets, indicating that the adult
E.maculata migrating into tributaries come from various parts of the
mainstem with various temperature regimes, earlier from warmer
reaches and later from cooler reaches.
The effect of the subsidy duration on the growth of juvenile
steelhead trout in tributaries will be examined by a large scale field
experiment in summer 2015. We predict that the temporal extension of
the subsidy period increases the efficiency of trophic transfer to juvenile Undergraduate field assistants checking the emergence of mayflies in incubating buckets in the South Fork Eel River at Angelo Coast Range Reserve.
steelhead trout and other recipient consumers in tributaries. The linkage
of the spatial heterogeneity to the temporal duration of subsidies by the phenology of mobile organisms is infrequently quantified, but
is likely of general importance. Dynamic consequences of multi-scale spatial heterogeneity in temperature and other environmental
controls over ecological interactions in natural landscapes need more attention.
The field rearing experiment described above was supported by the funding by Alan E. Leviton Student Research Award from
AAAS, Pacific Division. I thank Alan E. Leviton and the AAAS Pacific Division for the financial support for this project. J
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the meeting in San Francisco this June and those who
show up earliest will have the best selection!
One of the highlights of the national meeting for
the local community is Family Days, which takes
place on Saturday and Sunday of the meeting. As the
name implies, many different organizations such as
local museums, educational institutions, and others
like NASA bring in booths geared toward families
and especially children. Family days started at the last
AAAS meeting in Seattle, and has grown year by year,
both in attendance and also in the number and quality
of booths. I especially enjoyed this year’s program, as
there was lots of room to spread out and there were
kids all over the floor in several booths enjoying a
variety of exploratory activities. The composite photo
of this event gives one a small glimpse into the hectic
and often chaotic-seeming activities of the day. It was
great!
The Pacific Division was very capably represented
in the poster sessions by our two AAAS–Larus Student
Travel Award Winners from our meeting last June in
Riverside. On Saturday, Ms. Bethany G. Caulkins
(Department of Chemistry, University of California,
Riverside) presented her poster, NMR Crystallography
in the Enzyme Active Site of Tryptophan Synthase in
the General Poster Session.. On Sunday, Mr. Campbell
Dinsmore (Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University of California, Riverside) presented his
poster, The Subtle Effects of Air Lubrication: MicroBubbles and Enhanced Control of Ship Dynamics in
that General Poster Session. Both students reported
numerous conversations regarding their work and
were much appreciative of the opportunity offered by
AAAS to present their research projects in this venue.
All in all, this year’s meeting in San Jose was a
very good meeting and certainly a very good place to
be as San Jose was so kind to us with the warm days
and cool nights.
On to the Council meeting.....
Every year the AAAS Council meets on Sunday
morning of the national meeting. This year’s meeting
was pretty reflective of the usual meeting with a parade
of reports. To save readers that have gotten this far in my
report any additional fatigue, I’ll only report on items
that I believe are of general interest.
Gerald Fink, AAAS President, reported on Board
activities of the past year, stating that the Board was
involved in two major activities: the transformation
process, which is on-going and includes the new online journal, SCIENCE Advances which was formally
launched at this meeting in San Jose, and the hiring
of the new CEO and Executive Publisher for AAAS.
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ANNUAL MEETING, from page 1
advance registration and payment of additional fees. Drs.
John Hafernik and Kimberly Tanner, Department of Biology
at SFSU, are co-chairs of the Division’s local organizing
committee for this year’s annual meeting. Members of the
Pacific Division’s Executive Committee and Council are also
involved in developing the program to ensure that it is of the
highest quality.
This Newsletter contains a preliminary description of
the scientific program, a call for abstracts, directions for
preparation of abstracts, and information about registration,
housing, transportation, special events, field trips, and
symposia.
Following is a list of the Societies and Pacific Division
sections that are planning to sponsor sessions at the meeting.
The names and addresses of session chairs are found starting
on page 31 of this Newsletter.
Societies and Pacific Division Sections
Sponsoring Sessions at the
San Francisco Meeting
California Academy of Sciences
Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society
Agriculture, Food and Renewable Resources
Anthropology and Archaeology
Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Sciences
Cell and Molecular Biology
(including medical and dental research in these areas)
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Computer and Information Sciences
Earth Sciences
Ecology, Environmental Sciences and Sustainability
Education (Science and Technology)
Engineering, Technology and Applied Sciences
Evolution, Organismal Biology and Biodiversity
General and Interdisciplinary
History and Philosophy of Science
Mathematics
Physics and Materials Science
Psychology
Science and the Arts and Humanities
Social, Economic and Political Sciences
(including health services)
Registration
All persons planning to attend the meeting should use the Advance Registration Form on page 35 in this Newsletter to
pre-register in order to receive the best registration rate. Onsite registration will be available, but with higher fees. Advance
registration fees (through 26 April) for the full meeting are
$105.00 for professionals; $52.50 for retirees/emeritus, cur
rent post-docs, and students1; and $35.00 for, spouses/family
members of registrants and unemployed individuals. K–12 and
community college teachers are encouraged to attend the meeting for a reduced professional registration fee of $52.50. Oneday professional registration is available for $70.00. Presenters
and program organizers registering in the professional category
may purchase a full-meeting professional registration at the discounted rate of $70.00. To be eligible for this discount, the individual must have submitted an abstract for presentation at the
meeting that has either been approved or is pending approval,
be listed as an organizer or co-organizer of a program, or be
leading a field trip. Be sure to include this information in the appropriate space on your registration form. After 24 April, higher
registration fees will be charged, as indicated on the Advance
Registration Form. Beyond 29 May, on-site registration fees
will be charged for both pre-meeting and on-site registrations.
On-site registration fees for the full meeting are: professional,
$135.00; program planners/presenters, $90.00; K–12, community college teachers, post-docs, students, retirees/emeritus, and
unemployed $67.50; participating spouses and/or family members, and unemployed individuals, $45.00. One-day on-site
professional registration will be $90.00. Note that If you attend
more than one day, you must pay the full registration fee.
The first ten K–12 and community college instructors that
register in advance (by 29 May) for this meeting will receive,
upon request, a $75.00 stipend to help defray their expenses
to attend the meeting. The stipend is not available to teachers
who register on-site. Note that to receive the stipend you must
check the appropriate box on the Advance Registration Form.
Students have the opportunity to apply for travel awards
to help defray their costs for the meeting. See page 5 of
this Newsletter for additional information.
Field trips: Pre-registration for all field trips is required due
to limited seating in the vehicles and the need to inform some
destinations of the number of people arriving. If you are interested
in one or more of the excursions, it is recommended that you register
early. At least one member of a family group requesting field trip
reservations must be a paid meeting registrant. Participants who
are not registered for the meeting will be charged a one-time $10
field trip registration fee in addition to the fee for the field trip.
Please send your Advance Registration Form and accompanying
payment to AAAS, Pacific Division, Southern Oregon University,
1250 Siskiyou Blvd., Ashland, OR 97520. Alternatively, and with a
credit card, you may phone (541-552-6869) or fax the information
(541-552-8457 – a dedicated fax line).
PLEASE NOTE: Requests for refunds must be in writing
and received in the Pacific Division office no later than 15
May 2015. No refunds will be granted beyond this date. A $15
handling fee will be applied. An additional 3.5% deduction
will be applied to the total amount for credit card refunds.
Students receive a one-year student membership in AAAS, which includes
all member benefits including on-line access to Science magazine, with payment of their registration fee for this meeting. Current student members will
receive a one-year extension to their membership. Filled out membership
form must accompany registration form.
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Bethany G. Caulkins, Pacific Division AAAS-Larus awardee from
the Divison’s meeting last year in Riverside, California.
Photo courtesy herself.
By now, everyone knows that person to be Rush Holt,
former member of the House of Representatives from
New Jersey’s 12th congressional district from 1999 to
2015. [As an aside, I had the opportunity to meet and
speak with Dr. Holt for a few minutes and found him
to be very personable. I also liked his initial approach
to easing his way into AAAS.] Dr. Fink noted that the
Board chose to utilize funds from AAAS endowments
to fund the transformation process rather than squeezing
all of the programs in order to find the necessary $25
million or so required for implementation over the next
five years.
In his final CEO report, Alan Leshner noted that
attendance at the San Jose meeting was likely to set a
record of about 10,000. This included meeting, press, and
Family Days registrants. Dr. Leshner then announced
the appointment by the Board of Stephen Fodor to help
with expansion of AAAS membership in industry, and
the appointment of Kent Anderson as the new publisher
for the Science family of journals.He also mentioned,
among other things, the presence of a climate change
portal on EurekAlert, a recent MOU between AAAS
and the Cuban Academy of Sciences in order to make it
easier for Cuban and American scientists to collaborate,
and the SSE STEM Volunteers program, which has
reached its 10 year anniversary.
Dr. Leshner then moved on to an update on the
transformation initiative, noting the following. 1)
The core assumptions of the initiative are that the
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Campbell Dinsmore, Pacific Division AAAS-Larus awardee from
the Division’s meeting last June in Riverside, California.
mission of AAAS and its over-arching goals will
remain the same, and that AAAS will remain a
multidisciplinary, membership society. 2) The two
major strategic directions of the initiative are for AAAS
to become a multi-media, multi-platform scientific
communication enterprise and for AAAS to become a
more member-facing organization than it presently is.
3) The transformation initiative involved a) becoming
a “digital-first” enterprise (hiring of a new chief digital
officer; redesign of the Science website; Trellis, a
social networking website for scientists); b) becoming
a more member-facing organization (remain mission
driven but move from staff-driven to member-facing by
listening to and trying to do a better job of meeting the
needs of its members); c) exploring new businesses and
partnerships; and d) a five year transformation plan and
budget investment (see earlier comments).
The membership goal is 500,000 (currently about
120,000), a new chief membership officer is being hired
to help with this. For advocacy, new staffers are being/
will be hired to support R&D analyses and government
relations, along with the development of webinars on
these topics. To aid with career development, myIDP
(my Individual Development Plan) is being developed
to help young PhDs and other scientists explore career
options. For social networking, Trellis was introduced at
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On-Campus Meeting Housing
Food on Campus
A limited number of rooms in the Towers Junior Suites campus
housing are available for participants at this meeting. The Towers Junior Suites are individual rooms that each have two beds
and can accommodate one or two people. Each room has its
own bathroom. Included in the basic housing package for three
nights (Sunday, Monday, Tuesday) are 9 meals, dinner Sunday
evening, breakfast, lunch and dinner Monday, breakfast, lunch
and dinner Tuesday, and breakfast and lunch Wednesday. Included in the basic housing package for four nights (Sunday,
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday) are 12 meals, dinner Sunday evening, breakfast, lunch and dinner Monday, Tuesday
and Wednesday, and breakfast and lunch Thursday. All meals
are served at City Eats, the dining commons near the Towers
Junior Suites. There is no refund for unused meals.
Additional nights stays in the Towers Junior Suites, both
pre- and post-meeting, are available for those purchasing a
three- or four-night package. Extra nights include breakfast
only the next morning. Unused meals from a three- or four-day
package may not be applied to extra nights.
Please refer to page 34 in this Newsletter for details on
pricing of housing packages and extra nights.
To apply for housing in one of the Towers Junior Suites,
fill out the form on page 34 of this Newsletter. Please note
that by applying for on-campus housing, you are agreeing
to pay any additional fees that are assessed to the Pacific
Division by SFSU relating to your stay in the mini-suites,
such as lost keys, lost meal cards, use of “additional charge”
facilities, fines, etc.
The SFSU Cesar Chavez Student Center has a fairly extensive
food court, which includes a variety of foods such as salads,
Mexican, pizza, sandwiches, etc. Next to the SFSU campus
is the Stonetown Galleria, which has an extensive food court.
Alternatively, one can pay for a single meal at City Eats, the
dining commons near the parking garage on the SFSU campus..
Off-Campus Meeting Housing
Unfortunately, there are no hotels close to the SFSU campus. That said, the Division has contracted for special meeting rates with the Homewood Suites by Hilton, the Doubletree Hotel, and the Larkspur Landing South San Francisco,
all near San Francisco International Airport and each about
10 miles or so from campus. If you’d rather stay downtown or in some other part of the Bay Area, we suggest
you take advantage of hotel search engines such as Hotels.
com, Priceline.com or Expedia.com in order to find the best
deals.
Make your reservations for housing directly with the hotel/motel of your choice. Note that the AAAS, Pacific Division offers the above hotels without endorsement for any specific commercial enterprise.
Information about campus housing and also contracted
housing at the Hampton Inn, Homewood Suites, DoubleTree Hotel, and Larkspur Landing, including such things as
contact information, web links and links for reservations are
available on this Division web page: http://associations.sou.
edu/aaaspd/2015SANFRANCISCO/Housing15.html.
Travel to SFSU
From the North: Take highway 101 south, cross the Golden
Gate Bridge (toll $3). Take 19th Ave/Hwy 1 exit. Follow this
(several miles) to a right turn onto Holloway Avenue. Turn
right onto Font Boulevard. Then turn right to Lake Merced
Boulevard. At the first stop light make a right onto State Drive.
From the East: I-80 across the Bay Bridge to Hwy 101
South. Take 101 South (stay on the right) to I-280 and take
the second Daly City/Mission Blvd. Exit, bearing right onto
Sagamore St. and then to Brotherhood Way. Follow Brotherhood
until it ends and then take a right to merge onto Lake Merced
Boulevard. At the second stoplight make a right onto State Drive.
From the Northeast: I-5 to 505 freeway to I-80. I-80
across the Bay Bridge to Hwy 101 South. Take 101 South
(stay on the right) and take the second Daly City/Mission St.
Exit, bearing right onto Sagamore St. and then to Brotherhood
Way. Follow Brotherhood until it ends and then take a right to
merge onto Lake Merced Boulevard. At the second stop light
make a right onto State Drive.
From the South: On I-280 North stay towards the left
lane to exit at 19th Avenue/Hwy 1 and then bear to the right
onto the ramp to Brotherhood Way. Follow Brotherhood until
it ends and then take a right onto Lake Merced Blvd. At the
second stop light make a right onto State Drive.
From SFO Airport: Highway 101 to 380 junction to I-280
North (follow signs to San Francisco). On I-280 North stay in
the left lane to exit at 19th Ave./Hwy 1 and then bear to the
right onto the ramp to Brotherhood Way. Follow Brotherhood
until it ends and then take a right onto Lake Merced Boulevard.
At the second stop light make a right onto State Drive.
Parking on the SFSU Campus
On-street parking on 19th Avenue between the Stonetown
Shopping Center and Hensill Hall may be available. If so,
be sure to keep an eye on the time in order to not receive
an overtime parking ticket. Parking on campus is limited
to the large parking garage on State Drive, identified as
Lot 20 on on the campus map (see map on page 39 of
this Newsletter). When parking, be sure to not park in Lot
19, which is also in the parking structure! Level 4i Orange to 4n Orange and the roof level are restricted to staff
and faculty from 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Rates are $4 For
2 hours and $7 for all day. Please note that exact change
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Dr. Marcia McNutt, Editor-in-Chief of the Science family of journals, announcing the launch of AAAS’s new open access, web based
journal, Science Advances, to meeting attendees at the Membership
program area of the exhibit hall.
this meeting and is continuing to undergo development
as a portal for networking among scientists and others.
Rob Covey, Chief Digital Media Officer, reported
on the Digital First Initiative, talking about websites,
newsletters, news quizzes, Facebook, Twitter, video
series (such as five videos currently available on women
in science), and iPad apps. Lots is going on in the digital
world at AAAS!
Marcia McNutt, Editor-in-Chief of the Science family
of journals reported on two things of particular interest
relating to the journals. First was the reproducibility
initiative in preclinical research to which over 75 editors
representing over 120 journals have signed on. There are
three tiers of transparency in this initiative. The first and
lowest level tier is to ask authors to declare completely
what they did as part of the project. The second tier is
to ask authors to conform to a community standard.
The third and highest tier is for a journal to verify that
the level 2 standard is followed. Journals can currently
choose which of the three levels they will operate under.
Second, Dr. McNutt discussed the new open access
journal, Science Advances, which launched on 12
February 2015 with seven deputy editors and in excess
of 50 associate editors. She said it is expected there
will be approximately 50 submissions/week by the end
of the first quarter. The goal is to have first decisions
made by 45 days from submission. The initial average
acceptance rate is about 7% with the goal of increasing
the acceptance rate as the quality of submitted papers
increase. The nominal fee for submission is $4,000,
not including discounts for being a AAAS member, the
submitter’s institution having institutional site licenses
to various Science journals, etc. It is expected that the
average author charge will be around $1,500 when all
discounts are taken into account. Dr. McNutt stated that
AAAS doesn’t want author charges to be a barrier to the
publication of papers.
Moving on, Josh Freeman, Senior Advisor,
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Multi-Media Strategies at AAAS, presented the new
social networking program called Trellis. Once fully
implemented, Trellis will be available to everyone,
with no AAAS affiliation required. The web-based
program is designed to allow users to discover new
people, information, etc., engage, and collaborate with
each other. Key features are professional profiles, news
feeds to help users find information, groups (closed or
open, any size, heirarchial or independent, started by
organizations or individuals), discussions and questions/
answers, events (audio, video, web chat including
document presentation), and document management and
collaboration (accessible anywhere, allows comments
and annotations). Trellis is under development with
implementation in stages throughout the year. People can
start exploring Trellis at https://www.trelliscience.com.
Skipping over some additional staff reports, Dr.
Fink reported that the Committee on Sections created
a subcommittee to examine the process for electing
candidates for leadership offices and also was reviewing
the process for fellows nominations, noting disagreement
over the four year AAAS membership requirement that
was adopted at a recent Council meeting. He further
reported that the “Committee on Council Affairs (CCA)
approved the creation of a subcommittee to review
the Fellows nomination, review, and election process.
Nominations for subcommittee members will be
solicited, and the CCA will select members to comprise
the subcommittee. Recommendations will be reported
back to the Council.”
Near the end of the meeting, the emphasis turned
to action items for the Council, three of which were
presented: 1) based on their request, the International
Technology and Engineering Educators Association
(ITEEA) was unanimously accepted as affiliates with
AAAS; 2) the by-laws of the Pacific Division were
unanimously modified to enable electronic voting by its
Council and Executive Committee and also to change
language relating to the annual audit of its finances;
and 3) due to the inability of the Southwest and Rocky
Mountain Division (SWARM) to hold annual meetings
in three of the last four years, the failure of the SWARM
Executive Committee to address any of the governance
and fiscal concerns raised by AAAS in 2011, 2012 and
2013, and the present lack of a President or Executive
Director, the Council unanimously voted to declare
SWARM an inactive Division “to allow both the Board
and Council time to further study the viability of this
Division.”
Hearing no new business from members of the
Council, Dr. Fink adjourned the meeting just before
noon.
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is required; machines do not give change. Pay stations
will accept $1, $5 and $10 bills as well as credit/debit
cards and the SF State OneCard. Additional information
can be found by going to this web page: http://parking.
sfsu.edu/sfsu-parking/campus-parking.
are preparing your presentation on a Macintosh computer,
make sure it will load to a computer running Windows and
that it looks on that platform the way you want it to appear.
Registration Center
Members of AAAS and its affiliated societies, students,
teachers, and other scientists are encouraged to participate in
the annual meeting by presenting papers, either orally or as
posters. The deadline for submission of abstracts to symposium planners is Wednesday, 1 April 2015. The deadline for
submission of abstracts to section chairs for consideration for
inclusion in the contributed portion of the program is Friday,
24 April 2015. Instructions for the preparation and submission of abstracts follow.
The Registration Center will be at the elevator alcove on the
third floor of Hensill Hall. Hours of operation are expected to
be as follows, though these may change. Be sure to check the
Division’s website for updated information.
Sunday: 2:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Monday: 7:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Tuesday: 7:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Wednesday: 7:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Meeting Rooms
Technical sessions are expected to meet in rooms in Hensill, Thornton, and Science Halls. All meeting rooms will
be equipped with computers running Windows and Microsoft PowerPoint, as well as computer projectors. Speakers requiring other specialized equipment such as slide
or overhead projectors must make their requests known
when they submit their abstracts. If available, specialized
equipment will be provided. If rental costs are incurred,
payment of these costs will be the responsibility of the
requestor.
Times and Locations
of Presentations
The assigned meeting rooms and times of presentations
for the program will be published in the “Program with
Abstracts” issue of the Proceedings (Vol. 34, part 1),
which will be given to everyone who registers for the
meeting. Speakers may obtain final confirmation of the
time and place of their presentation by visiting the Pacific Division website (pacific.aaas.org) starting no later
than 1 June 2015. Symposium planners will provide this
information to presenters in their programs in advance of
this date.
Computers and
PowerPoint Presentations
Meeting rooms will be outfitted with computers running Windows and PowerPoint, and will be connected to standard data
projectors. If you are planning to use PowerPoint for your
presentation, you must make sure that it will run on the Windows platform. Only CD-ROMs and thumb/USB/flash drives
may be used to load presentations onto the computers. If you
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Call for Abstracts
Preparation of Abstracts
Properly prepared abstracts should contain two sections: 1)
title, name(s) of author(s), contact information for author(s)
and 2) the text of the abstract. All abstracts should be prepared in 10 pt Times New Roman font, “NORMAL” style,
and left justified. These two sections should be prepared and
formatted as described below.
Title Line: The title of the presentation should be italicized
and in title case, with all principal words such as nouns,
verbs, adjectives, pronouns, adverbs, and the second parts
of hyphenated major words capitalized while small words
of three letters or fewer, such as articles, prepositions, and
conjunctions, remain in lower case unless they start the title,
follow a colon, or end the title). At the end of the title is a
non-italicized comma unless the title ends with an exclamation or question mark, in which case there is no comma.
Authors’ Names: If there is more than one author for the presentation, all authors should be listed sequentially, starting
with the person who contributed the most to the project and
ending with the person who contributed the least. All names
should be in upper case and bold except for the word “and”
that occurs at the end of a list of presenters. There should be
no punctuation between the last presenter’s name and the left
bracket for contact information.
Authors’ Contact Information: Contact information should
be inside of one set of parentheses and include the following,
if applicable: department, institution, city, state, and e-mail
address for at least the presenter. Additional e-mail addresses
may be included if desired. If more than one address occurs
among the authors, use a superscripted number on the right
of each author’s last name, followed by the corresponding
superscripted number at the start of each unique address. If
more than one author is listed, place a full size asterisk (*)
next to the last name of the presenter. A period should be
placed just to the right of the closing bracket. Applying all
of these rules, a complete and properly formatted title line
should look like the following:
E-mail us at [email protected]
Formatting an Abstract for Submission to a Pacific Division
Section Chair and the AAASPD Meetings Office, SAMUEL P. KRAFTER1*, YESIMAN AUTHOR1, and IDIDA
DeREADING2 (1Department of Biology, Southern Oregon
University, Ashland, OR; [email protected], [email protected]; 2Department of Academic Speech, Bureau
of Speech Employment, Medford, OR; [email protected]).
Text of the Abstract: The purpose of an abstract is to give
the reader a sense of what the presentation will be about. An
abstract shouldn’t try to tell the whole story, but should give
enough information in general terms so that the reader can ascertain the main thrust of the presentation and decide whether
it will be worthwhile to attend. Thus, abstracts are limited to
250 or fewer words and should contain few if any references.
It is OK to acknowledge funding sources at the end of the abstract, but the words used in this way do count toward the 250
word limit. For additional hints about writing good abstracts,
try one of these two or other web pages:
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/656/1/
http://writingcenter.unc.edu/handouts/abstracts/
Remember to use Times New Roman 10 pt font,
“NORMAL” style, and left justification for your abstract!
If you use a different font or style, your abstract will be
reformatted to this font and style. If your abstract contains
special characters, in addition to submitting it via e-mail you
should fax (541-552-8457) or mail (AAAS Pacific Division,
Southern Oregon University, 1250 Siskiyou Blvd., Ashland,
OR 97520) a printed copy with the special characters clearly
marked and notations indicating the font used. Be aware that
if you use an unusual font set for special characters there is a
high likelihood that we will not be able to print it correctly,
so please use common font sets such as Symbol or Wingdings
for special characters.
The first line of each paragraph of the text of your abstract
should be indented 0.25 inches by using the FIRST LINE
INDENT command of your word processor. Do not use a tab
or the spacebar!
Submission of Abstracts
All abstracts must be submitted via e-mail as Microsoft Word
(.doc or .docx) or .rtf file attachments. DO NOT SUBMIT
ABSTRACTS IN THE BODY OF AN E-MAIL OR AS A
PDF FILE!
Symposium abstracts should be e-mailed directly to the
symposium organizer for review and approval.
Persons submitting abstracts for contributed sessions
(non-symposium) must identify the appropriate section to
which the abstract will be sent for review and acceptance
into the program (see list on page 31 of this Newsletter)
and e-mail their abstract to the chair (and co-chair if one is
listed) of that section. Contributed abstracts must also be emailed to the Pacific Division office ([email protected]). The
subject line of these e-mail submissions should include the
phrase “abstract2015” (no space between abstract and 2015)
and your last name (e.g.: Abstract2015 Smith). Including this
information in the subject line will ensure that you receive
an e-mail reply from the Division office confirming receipt
of your submission at the Division office. Section chairs will
make every effort to review submitted abstracts and notify
submitters of whether or not their submission has been accepted into the program in a timely manner.
Abstract submission deadlines: Receipt of abstracts by symposium planners and section chairs have the following deadlines:
Deadline for abstract submissions for symposium presentations to symposium planners – Wednesday, 1 April 2015.
Deadline for abstract submissions for contributed sessions (poster or oral) to section chair and Division office
– Friday, 24 April 2015. If you would like to discuss your
submission with the chair of the section to which you are
submitting it, please refer to page 31 of this Newsletter for
contact information.
Student Awards for Excellence
The AAAS, Pacific Division offers each affiliated society and
section participating in the annual meeting the opportunity to
recognize outstanding student participants through the presentation of Awards of Excellence and cash prizes of $150 for
first place (minimum judging pool of 3 presentations), $100
for second place (minimum judging pool of 6 presentations),
and $50 for third place (minimum judging pool of 9 presentations). Additionally, each winner receives a certificate of recognition. Societies sometimes supplement these awards with
their own cash prizes.
In 2015, seven division-wide awards may be available:
Laurence M. Klauber Award for Excellence (unrestricted);
Geraldine K. Lindsay Award for Excellence in the Natural
Sciences; J. Thomas Dutro, Jr. Award for Excellence in the
Geosciences; Presidents Award for Excellence (unrestricted);
Rita W. Peterson Award for Excellence in Science Education
Research; Best Poster Award (for posters only but otherwise
unrestricted); and the AAAS–Robert I. Larus Travel Award,
which will provide a reimbursement for travel and other
meeting related expenses up to $1,000 for the awardee to attend
the national meeting of AAAS in Boston, Massachusetts,
11 – 15 February 2016 for the purpose of presenting his/
her winning presentation as a poster. The Klauber, Lindsay,
Dutro, Presidents, Peterson, Best Poster, and Larus awards
are given to those students whose presentations are judged
the most significant in the advancement or understanding of
science.
To be eligible for a sectional award or one of the
division-wide awards, a student must be registered for the
meeting prior to the session in which his/her presentation is
to be judged, be the primary presenter of the presentation,
and be the principal research investigator. Student
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presentations, both oral and poster, are judged on their
abstracts, content, style of delivery or presentation, and
audiovisual aids and/or handouts (if used). The evaluation
forms for both oral and poster presentations are posted on
the Division’s meeting web page (http://associations.sou.
edu/aaaspd/2015SANFRANCISCO/index.html). Students
who are competing for Awards of Excellence are invited
to be guests of the Division at the annual banquet Tuesday
evening, 16 June 2015. Festivities that evening include the
announcement of student awards. If you are one of these
students, please be sure to check the appropriate box on
the Advance Registration form to let us know you will be
attending the dinner.
IMPORTANT NOTE: All judging for student awards ends
by 3:00 p.m. on Tuesday, at which time the judges go into
closed session to determine the winners of the Divisionwide awards. If you are a student wishing to compete for an
Award of Excellence and your oral symposium presentation
is scheduled to end later than 3:00 p.m. Tuesday, you must,
in addition to presenting orally as part of the symposium,
prepare a poster for presentation at a poster session earlier in
the week. That way your presentation will be judged and you
will be in the pool of potential prize winners. This may only
occur if your presentation is part of a symposium. All poster
sessions and oral contributed paper sessions are scheduled to
ensure that student presenters are judged prior to the cut-off
on Thursday afternoon.
Special Events
The following special events are planned for the meeting.
Sunday Evening Theatrical Performance.
Sunday Evening SFSU President’s Reception following the
theatrical presentation. This event, hosted by SFSU President Julian Wong, is open to all meeting registrants and their
guests. Please be sure to wear your meeting badge!
Monday evening program at the California Academy of Sciences, to include tours of the facility and a reception. Doors
open at 6:30 p.m., followed by the AAASPD Presidential Address at 7:00 p.m., then a reception hosted by the California
Academy of Sciences and free time to wander the Academy
facilities and/or take special “behind the scenes” tours of the
Academy. The evening is expected to end at 10:30 p.m. This
event is open to all meeting registrants and their guests. Be
sure to wear your meeting badge, which is your ticket in!
Tuesday evening student Awards Banquet. Tuesday evening
will be an exciting time for everyone as Division representatives will announce the names of student winners of sectional
Awards of Excellence and also winners of the Division’s
Laurence M. Klauber Award for Excellence (unrestricted),
Geraldine K. Lindsay Award for Excellence in the Natural
Sciences, J. Thomas Dutro, Jr. Award for Excellence in the
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ence Education Research, the Presidents’ Award for Excellence (unrestricted), the Best Poster Award (for poster presentations only but otherwise unrestricted), and the AAAS
Robert I. Larus Travel Award.
The evening is planned to begin at 6:15 p.m. with a nonalcoholic reception, followed by dinner service to begin about
6:45 p.m. After dinner will be a brief program, including the
presentation of student awards. We ask that all student award
winners stay for the group photograph to be taken at the
conclusion of the evening's program. The evening should end
by about 9:30 p.m.
Banquet attendees can choose between three entrées:
Sliced Tri Tip of Beef, with braised onions and wild
mushrooms; Oven Roasted Halibut, with a beet and lemon
compote; and Herb Marinated Portobello Mushroom
and Ratatouille (a vegan offering), served over rosemary
polenta and tomato coulis. All entrées include Caesar
Salad, a starch and vegetable chosen by the chef, rolls and
butter, water, coffee, and iced tea. Dessert is planned to be
cinnamon banana bread pudding with vanilla sauce. Gluten
free is an option for all three of these meals, but must be
specified in advance on the Advance Registration Form.
Please note that details may change as we approach the
banquet date. If a substitution must be made, every effort
will be made to insure that the replacement is comparable
to or better than that which is listed above. Banquet tickets
are $40 each and should be purchased on the Advance
Registration Form (see page 35 of this Newsletter)
as there will be few available on-site. The deadline for
ordering banquet tickets is the close of early registration
for the meeting, 29 May.
Students in competition for Awards of Excellence are
invited to be guests of the Division for this event. Be sure to
check the appropriate entrée box on the Advance Registration
Form (see page 35 of this Newsletter), which will indicate
your plans to attend, and you will be provided a ticket at no
cost. Additional banquet tickets are available to students at
the full price of $40. Note that if you request a complimentary
ticket we expect you to attend the banquet. Please do not
dishonor the Division’s generosity in offering you this
opportunity to fully participate in the meeting with minimal
out-of-pocket expenses by asking for a ticket and then not
showing up!
Wednesday Morning Business Meeting of the Council
of the Pacific Division. The Council of the Pacific Division
will hold its annual breakfast and business meeting at 7:00
a.m. on Wednesday, 17 June in the Blakeslee Room in
Thornton Hall on the SFSU campus. The Council will elect
officers and Council members, discuss programs for the 2016
and 2017 annual meetings, and transact such other business
as is required by the Division’s By-Laws. This is an open
meeting and Pacific Division members with an interest in the
governance of the Division are invited to attend.
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Public Lectures
The following public lectures are planned. Additional ones
may be scheduled as time permits. All members of the public
are invited to attend these lectures at no charge.
Monday Noon Public Lecture
Monday Evening AAASPD Presidential Address (at the
California Academy of Sciences).
Tuesday Noon Public Lecture
Wednesday Noon Public Lecture
Please watch the Pacific Division website for updates on
these and other lectures as they are added.
Workshops
The following workshops were being planned as of 1 April
2015. For the most up-to-date information about workshops for this meeting, please access the Division’s WORKSHOPS web page at this URL: http://associations.sou.edu/
aaaspd/2015SANFRANCISCO/Workshops15.html.
Sunday afternoon, 14 June. Saving Scientists from Themselves. Organized by Rodger Bailey (Bailey-Group International, American Institute of Applied Politics; rodgy@
me.com).
Scientific research has experienced a sea-change of
public policy challenges over the last five years. Given the
challenges still to come – economically, politically and
culturally – scientists who depend on public, private and
non-profit support and who are impacted by government
regulatory oversight must become much more proactive in
affecting the public policy or risk become irrelevant.
While most of these challenges are out of the hands of the
scientific community, how they deal with these challenges
are well within their perview. However if the past is any
indication, scientists and their supportive institutions have at
best been more than a bit negligent in affecting the public
policy arena and at worst they have exhibited a high level of
“tone-deafness” to the realities of the public policy making
process in this country and its impact on their research and
livelihoods.
Scientists must appreciate two absolute truths: 1) Most
academic-based scientific research depends on the good
graces of our public policy making process and the American
investor (tax payers). Scientists who dismiss this do so at their
own professional peril. 2) The proper funding of academicbased scientific research is probably one of the most critical
operations our public policy making process can support.
The overall objective of this program is to “help scientists
to help themselves.” This can be done by giving them a better
understanding of the public policy making process and to
give them the tools to proactively and positively affect that
process for their own advancement and the good of every
American.
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One of the great things about our Republic – contrary to
most folks impression – is that a small group of motivated
individuals, with an understanding of the process and
knowledge (tools) about how to affect that process, can make
a major difference for their cause in a very short time period.
Objectives of the program are to give participants
• an understanding the American public policy-making process;
• insight into the drivers and trends that influence the American public policy-making process; and
• some basic tools (strategies and tactics) that they can employ to benefit their own situations.
Pre-workshop preparation. A survey instrument will be
sent to conference attendees to get a basic SWAT (strengths,
weakness, opportunities and threats) public policy analyses
to better prepare and focus the workshop instruction and
material to their individual realities.
Post-workshop follow-up. Given the scope of the subject
matter, it is not possible to cover all of the material within
a half-day workshop so AiAP™® will provide program
participants and other interested AAASPD members ongoing
tutorial and support programs.
Please access the Division’s WORKSHOPS web page,
http://associations.sou.edu/aaaspd/2015SANFRANCISCO/
Workshops15.html, for additional information about this
workshop.
Sunday afternoon, 14 June. Organizing the Whyville Association for the Advancement of Science (WAAS): How
Would You Engage Millions of Tweens (78% Girls) in Science Advocacy using a Virtual World? Organized by: James
M. Bower (Numedeon Inc.; [email protected]) and Connie Calderon-Jensen (Program Outreach Coordinator, School
of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco; [email protected]).
Whyville.net was launched more than 15 years ago by
former Caltech faculty and students to explore the use of
virtual worlds and games to engage children in learning with
a particular focus on Science, Technology, Engineering and
Math (STEM). Now with more than 8 million cumulative
registered users, average age of 13, and 78% of whom are
female, Whyville.net remains one of the largest as well as
the most experienced game-based learning worlds of its
kind. Whyville.net has been in discussion with the Pacific
Division of AAAS about the possibility of creating an
organization of children within Whyville that reflects the
larger education, outreach, science policy and advocacy
and public engagement missions of AAAS. This Workshop
will start with a discussion of the ways in which Whyville is
already involved in these activities through consideration of
several specific projects including: “Why-Pox,” the virtual
contagious disease in Whyville; “Why-Reef,” focused on
the effects of global climate change on coral reefs developed
in partnership with Chicago’s Field Museum; “Play Math,”
a game-based approach to fundamental math learning
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developed in partnership with the Educational Development
Center (EDC); “Why-Power,” a game-based exploration of
energy issues and careers; and “Why-Careers,” a general
virtual careers exploration developed in collaboration with the
educational testing organization ACT. With this information
as background, the workshop will then turn to considering
participants’ ideas for the organization and launch of the
Whyville Association for the Advancement of Science.
Monday morning, 15 June. Communicating Your Science
to Everyone: Practical Tips for Memorable Messages! Organized by Dennis F. Magnan (Director, Chalk Talk Science
Project, Santa Rosa, CA; [email protected]).
As a scientist, you rely on support from people eager to
know who you are, what you do, what you’ve accomplished
and why you do what you do. Effective communication
impacts your ability to lead, get funding, teach and advance
your career. In short, good communication makes you, your
lab, your institution/company and all of science look good!
Too often we fail to explain our work in ways that
make sense to non-scientists. To receive recognition, get a
job or be promoted, thwart the anti-science movement and
become a better teacher, you must communicate with diverse
audiences. People eager to hear your message include
students, colleagues, funding agency staff, philanthropists,
legislators, university administrators, job search/award
committees, news media, patients, family and friends.
You might already be a good communicator. Yet, we all
can get better. Improving communication skills isn’t hard...
it just takes some learning and practice. Public speaking can
be very enjoyable and personally rewarding. In this very
interactive workshop, you’ll (re)discover simple techniques
that can make your talks come alive, and help you deliver
powerful messages that impact your listeners.
You’ll learn about:
• Using improv and other techniques to energize your
impromptu talks and overcome the dread of public
speaking;
• Preparing awesome visuals to enhance your talks; and,
• Storytelling to inform and persuade.
As a science administrator and communication consultant,
Dr. Dennis Mangan has been working with faculty and
students for over 30 years to deliver clear, memorable
messages and presentations. Join us in learning how to
become an even better communicator, because...it’s fun and
important for your career in science!
Monday afternoon, 15 June. Rethinking Design Strategies by Adopting Nature’s Principles. Organized by Shanti
Balaraman and Pavan Raj Gowda (Green Kids Now, Inc.,
4212 Westminster Circle, Fremont, CA 94536; president@
greenkidsnow.org, [email protected]).
This workshop will clearly explain biomimicry and how
to adopt it as the method of innovation, and why many
industries are adopting it. We will share with real examples
of products, solutions, and technologies that have emerged
utilizing this methodology.
We will be explaining about the need and how to rethink
our design strategy, by using nature as our design partner. The
students will form teams and collaborate to design a structure
for the hands-on activities which will clearly provide an
opportunity to apply this newly learned methodology and
provide a better understanding of the processes to achieve
efficiency. This methodology can be adopted into any field/
industry.
In this engaging workshop you will get a fresh perspective
on how the world around us can, does, and should work.
Students will leave with a clear understanding of the
responsibilities when creating a solution or product.
Wednesday morning, 17 June. An Introduction to GrantWriting for Foundations for those in the Sciences, Social
Sciences, Education and the Humanities. Organized by Peter Kraus (Associate Librarian, University of Utah, J. Willard Marriott Library, 295 South 1500 East, SLC, UT 84112;
[email protected]).
Participants will review the process of writing effective
grant applications and assembling a good proposal to
foundations. The basic components of a competitive grant
proposal will be presented including the common pitfalls to
avoid in grant writing and submission. Appropriate project
funding sources will be discussed as well as establishing
positive sponsor relationships, satisfying sponsor
requirements, and the proposal review process.
Field Trips
All field trips are open to meeting registrants and their families. At least one member of a family group must be registered for the meeting. Unregistered family members will be
charged an additional one-time-only $10 field trip registration fee. This fee is paid only once for this meeting, regardless of how many field trips a non-registrant participates in.
Due to limited space, advance registration is required for
all field trips. Reservation and payment of field trip fee(s) are
included on the Advance Registration Form (see page 35
of this Newsletter).
A full refund will be granted if a trip is cancelled by the
Division. If a registrant cancels via e-mail or written notification
received in the Pacific Division office no later than 15 May
2015, the registrant will receive a refund of the fee(s) paid less
a $15 processing fee. If paid by credit card, an additional 3.5%
of the original charge will be deducted from the amount being
refunded to help pay for fees charged to the Division by credit
card companies.
Additional information about these field trips may be found
on the Division’s FIELD TRIPS web page, http://associations.
sou.edu/aaaspd/2015SANFRANCISCO/FieldTrips15.html.
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(1) Sunday, 14 June, 8:30 a.m. to about 4:00 p.m. Natural
History of Marin County.
The trip will depart from San Francisco State University
campus, crossing the Golden Gate Bridge and stopping at
Bootjack Picnic Area at Mount Tamalpais State Park. Here we
will hike about 1.5 miles each way through mixed evergreen,
chaparral and serpentine habitats to observe the profoundly
different habitats and abrupt changes depending on soil types.
From Mt. Tamalpais we will travel to Pt. Reyes National
Seashore, stopping at several key locations along the way. The
differences between plant communities as we transition from
the North American Plate to the Pacific Plate will be evident
as we enter Bishop Pine forests, coastal scrub and strand
communities, ending at the Point Reyes Lighthouse. We return
via Sir Francis Drake Boulevard, passing by Samuel P. Taylor
State Park and returning back across the Golden Gate Bridge.
Cautions: Coastal California can be hot (in the 90s) and may
also include fog and strong winds and temperatures in the 50s
at Pt. Reyes.
Recommended clothing: It is important to have sun block,
hats and protective clothing. It is advisable to dress in layers
depending on the weather. Also, be sure to wear hiking shoes or
boots suitable for the three mile hike. Be prepared for moderately
steep portions of trails and then more level walks along a fire road.
Includes transportation and box lunch. Cost: $50.00 per
person.
(2) Sunday, 14 June, 10:00 a.m. to about 3:00 p.m. Plants
and Plant Chemistry at the Regional Parks Botanic Garden, Berkeley.
The Regional Parks Botanic Garden, nestled in Tilden
Park in the hills above Berkeley, is a natural living museum
of California native plants. The 10-acre garden is a sanctuary
for many of the state's rare and endangered plants and a
place for visitors to wander among trees, shrubs, flowers,
and grasses from plant communities throughout the state,
including the Desert Area, the Channel Islands, the Sierran
Section, the Coastal Area, the Temperate Rainforest, the
Coastal Hills, and the Franciscan Peninsula. The Garden has
an exceptional collection of manzanitas and ceanothus, and
features several bulb beds. June is an especially beautiful
time for plants in flower. After a tour of the Garden to view
plants and talk about some of their special plant chemistry,
we’ll have a picnic lunch at the Garden. If there is time, we’ll
go on a short walk in the near vicinity in Tilden Park to view
plant areas outside the Garden proper.
Cautions: Be prepared for 2 to 3 miles of walking. Some
Garden trails are narrow, uneven, and may be muddy.
Recommended clothing: Comfortable walking shoes, sun
protection.
Minimum 5 participants; maximum 15. Includes transportation,
brochures and box lunch. Cost: $50.00 per person.
(3) Thursday, 18 June, 9:00 a.m. to approximately 4:00
p.m. Tiburon Uplands to the Romberg Tiburon Center on
San Francisco Bay.
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The Romberg Tiburon Center for Environmental Studies is
San Francisco State University’s marine and estuarine research
facility, located on the Tiburon Peninsula in Marin County. Led
by Karina Nielsen, Director of the Romberg Tiburon Center,
this full-day excursion will take you from the town of Tiburon
through open space nature preserves at the upper elevations of
the Tiburon Peninsula, with spectacular views of the bay, and
then down to the bayside Romberg Tiburon Center to explore
the historical ecology of the site and research activities at
the center. The trip will depart from the San Francisco State
University campus, crossing the Golden Gate Bridge and
stopping in the town of Tiburon at the trailhead for the Old
Saint Hilary’s Open Space Preserve. Here we will walk along
the Heathcliff fire road and the ridge line of the peninsula, with
exposed stretches of chaparral and grassland, and spectacular
views of San Francisco Bay. We will then cross over the ridge
on a narrow trail to the Tiburon Uplands trail and descend
steeply through a wooded canyon filled with California bay
laurels, coast live oak and toyon trees. At the bottom of the trail
we reach Paradise Drive and the entrance gate to the Romberg
Tiburon Center. We will break for a box lunch before exploring
the Center’s interesting history, which includes the site being
a former Navy Base, but also its current reincarnation as the
hub of Bay area marine and estuarine research. We will learn
about some of the exciting research projects being conducted
by researchers and students affiliated with San Francisco
State University, the San Francisco Bay National Estuarine
Research Reserve and the San Francisco Bay Laboratory of the
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, including coastal
and estuarine conservation and restoration projects, the effects
of climate change and ocean acidification on marine life and
more. Van drivers will be shuttled back to pick up the vans at
the trailhead, returning to the Center at approximately 3 pm to
drive participants back to San Francisco State University.
Cautions: Be prepared for moderately steep portions of
trails and more level walking on the fire and paved roads. The
hike is about 3 miles long with about 400 ft elevation change,
much of it downhill. The hike ends at the Romberg Tiburon
Center on the shore of San Francisco Bay.
Recommended clothing: Hiking boots, sunscreen and hat.
Dress in layers, depending on the weather (may be hot or
windy, foggy and cool).
Includes transportation, road log, water bottle, and box
lunch. Cost: $55.00 per person.
(4) Thursday, 18 June, 9:30 a.m. to approximately 3:00
p.m. Back to the Future: A Visit to China Camp State Park.
China Camp State Park is a popular Marin County
destination for family campers, hikers, mountain bikers, and
nature enthusiasts. However, it is also one of the best examples
of a relatively intact historic landscape in the lower San
Francisco Estuary. Hills draped in mixed evergreen forest drain
into transitional wetlands that then morph into some of the best
salt marsh habitat in the region. Tidal sloughs drain the marsh
across an extensive system of mud flats out into San Pablo
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Bay. At the eastern tip of the park, there is a living remnant of a
once flourishing Chinese shrimp fishing village surrounded by
rocky shoreline habitat that is still home to an Olympia oyster
population. Thus, it uniquely offers a lens through which one
can view and experience the historical ecology and biology of
San Francisco Bay, part of the largest estuary in western North
America. These special conditions have drawn the attention of
researchers and educators for decades.
In 2003, China Camp State Park became part of the San
Francisco Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve (SF Bay
NERR), a federal-state partnership between NOAA, San
Francisco State, and its land manager partners, such as the
Department of California State Parks & Recreation. Selected
as a reference tidal wetland landscape to help inform the
massive wetland restoration effort underway in the region
for the past two decades, its importance as a “sentinel site”
system is all the more relevant today as we grapple with
new threats posed to coastal resilience due to climate-related
changes, such as rapid sea-level rise (SLR). Marshes, oyster
shoals, and eel grass beds are increasingly recognized as
keystone elements of a “green infrastructure” portfolio that
can be harnessed to help protect our shoreline. Thus, if we
are successful, the future of San Francisco Bay may some
day look more like the remnant tidal wetlands at China Camp
than current conditions.
This tour of China Camp will be hosted by Dr. Mike
Vasey, manager of the SF Bay NERR, and will focus on
its special ecological and historical features. We will also
discuss the latest science practiced at China Camp geared to
understanding the function and value of tidal marshes in the
face of SLR and how this knowledge can be used to improve
regional policies and practices addressing this threat, and
also to promote the successful restoration of tidal wetlands.
Dr. Vasey will also be joining other scientists in a special
symposium during the meeting entitled “Advancing Green
Infrastructure for Habitat and Coastal Resilience” which
should provide a good background for this visit.
Cautions: This trip is not challenging physically, with
relatively level trails and short lecture/discussion sessions
staged at road pullouts and parking areas that provide access
to good viewing of the subjects of the discussions.
Recommended clothing: Comfortable walking shoes,
a hat and sunscreen. Bring water. Binoculars are useful for
wildlife sightings.
Includes transportation, lunch, field guide, and road log.
Cost: $55.00 per person.
Technical Sessions
Symposia
The following symposia are being planned for this meeting.
Although symposia are typically organized around invited
papers, organizers often will consider adding one or more
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contributed papers if they are relevant to their programs.
Should you wish to participate in one of these symposia,
contact the symposium organizer directly. Instructions for
abstract preparation and submission for symposium presentations appear on pages 16ff of this Newsletter. Should you
prefer to present a paper in one of the contributed paper sessions, you should also refer to pages 16ff for instructions
and also page 31 for names of sections and program organizers in this Newsletter. Check the Division’s web page,
http://associations.sou.edu/aaaspd/2015SANFRANCISCO/
Symposia15.html, for the latest information on symposia.
Please remember that at this time the listings contained
herein are tentative and subject to change. If you plan to attend
the meeting largely for one symposium or technical session,
check the Division’s website for updates to the program or
contact the Division office at 541-552-6869 or aaaspd@sou.
edu to confirm the status of the session(s) before committing
travel funds. Additional symposia added to the program
will be posted on the Division’s symposium web page,
http://associations.sou.edu/aaaspd/2015SANFRANCISCO/
Symposia15.html, at frequent intervals.
Important notice for students presenting in symposia: If
you are a student who intends to be in the competition for
an Award of Excellence and you are part of a symposium
with your presentation scheduled Tuesday afternoon (check
with the planner of your symposium) or Wednesday, you
must also present your work as a poster in order to be judged.
Otherwise, you will not be eligible for student awards due to
the conclusion of judging Tuesday morning. Awards will be
announced later that evening.
(1) Boise Extravaganza in Set Theory (BEST). [Formerly
Saving Scientists from Themselves, which was converted into a workshop (see workshop listings above).] Organizers: Liljana Babi-
nkostova, Andres Caicedo, Samuel Coskey, and Marion
Scheepers (Department of Mathematics, Boise State Univeristy, Boise, Idaho [email protected]).
Three day program, scheduled for Monday, Tuesday, and
Wednesday, 15, 16 and 17 June.
This program is a continuation of the well-known
conference BEST (Boise Extravaganza in Set Theory). BEST
focuses on the mathematical discipline called Set Theory, and
its applications in other disciplines in Mathematics. BEST,
for its first nineteen years hosted in Idaho at Boise State
University, has been a symposium at the Pacific Division
annual meetings since 2013.
Set Theory is the mathematical foundation for the study
of the infinitary objects that routinely arise in Mathematics
and its applications, and in the mathematical sciences.
Contemporary set theoretic research addresses basic
questions about provability, consistency and independence,
and the relative strength of postulates or hypotheses in
mathematized scientific theories. The methods developed by
set theory serve as powerful tools for applications in many
other mathematical disciplines, including algebra, analysis,
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combinatorics, complexity, topology and more.
The invited speakers for this program are successful
set theorists from different career stages and will present
high level scientific talks in several areas of set theory
and its applications. The BEST symposium will also host
contributed talks in Set Theory and its applications by
participants. Undergraduate and graduate students will also
present research accomplishments in these areas.
(2) Library Science: Theory and Practice of Librarianship. Organizer: Crystal Goldman (Geisel Library, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA; clgoldman@ucsd.
edu). Co-organizers: Frank Jacobitz (Engineering Department, University of San Diego, San Diego, CA; jacobitz@
sandiego.edu and Amy Besnoy (Copley Library, University of
San Diego, San Diego, CA; [email protected]).
Full day program scheduled for Tuesday, 16 June.
Library Science is a “discipline with primarily a practical
aim” (Hjørland, 1999, p. 512). This does not transmute the fact
that the field is grounded in fundamental theory and research.
Practice-based research can relate to specific approaches to
concrete problems at individual institutions, while theoretical
research is more general in nature, can be applied to multiple
library environments, and is not necessarily based on concrete
practices (Audunson, 2007; Chow, Shaw, Gwynn, Martensen,
& Howard, 2011; Hjørland, 1999). These methods of library
research complement each other and work in tandem to
enrich the discipline as a whole.
This symposium will focus on both the theory and
practice of librarianship in academia, which invites an allinclusive consideration of libraries and librarians in the
learning environment. From case studies involving practice
at specific institutions to abstract investigations addressing
aspects of the discipline at large, this symposium intends
to foster a dialogue on a variety of library issues, such as
instruction, reference, cataloging, access, digitization, and
scholarly communication.
(3) Coping with Climate Calamities: How the Humanities
and Social Sciences Might Cure Our Eco-despair. [For-
merly Climate Change, Infectious Disease, Math Education and STEM
Careers in the Virtual Gaming WorldWhyville.net: A New Model for
Engaging Children, which was converted into a workshop (see workshop listings above).] Organizer: Robert L. Chianese (Professor
of English Emeritus, California State University Northridge,
Northridge, CA; [email protected]).
Half day program scheduled for Tuesday morning, 16 June.
A June 2014 report by the American Psychological
Association charts the ill effects of climate change on
people’s emotional states. Beyond Storms and Droughts:
the Psychological Impacts of Climate Change finds climate
change causing a loss of social cohesion, as well as increased
violence, crime, social instability, aggression, and domestic
violence. On the personal level, the report discovers a deep
“eco-anxiety” in individuals and cites a trio of disastrous
symptoms—“helplessness, fatalism, and resignation.”
While scientists are busy analyzing climate change
and suggesting and devising ways to ameliorate its worse
effects, they rarely address the emotional and psychological
component of our personal and communal sense of dread
about our planet’s future. This sense of dread is particularly
true of people who try to imagine our distant diminished future
rather than those who have suffered a local environmental
calamity. The arts, humanities, and social sciences need to
attend to these large philosophic topics—that “fatalism and
resignation” human beings often feel, now provoked by fears
of climate change—and find ways to define, comprehend,
and potentially ameliorate them.
The symposium seeks papers and presentations about
efforts in the arts, humanities, and social sciences that address
underlying psychological disturbances that originate from dread
over far reaching climate disruption.
(4) Science from Citizen Science. Organizer: Rebecca F.
Johnson (Citizen Science Research Coordinator, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA; rjohnson@
calacademy.org). Co-organizer: Allison Young (Citizen Science Engagement Coordinator, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA; [email protected]).
Half day program scheduled for Monday afternoon, 15 June.
Citizen science is a process through which everyone
can take an active role in scientific discovery. By working
together with scientists to gather data, interpret results and
solve problems, citizen scientists participate and leverage
their combined talents and passions toward answering some
of the most pressing questions of our time. Local scientists
utilizing citizen science as a strategy in their work will
present the results of their research. In this way, the first hour
of our symposium will be very similar to other sessions of the
conference, by presenting cutting edge, important research.
We will then lead a discussion among participants about the
dual, and sometimes dueling goals, of science and engagement
in citizen science. Attendees and participants will then
participate in the science they have just learned about. Toward
this end, we will begin a mini-bioblitz of the San Francisco
State Campus and Lake Merced at the start of the conference
and distribute information about how to participate in the
bioblitz to all attendees. If possible, a monitor with a running
tally of finds will be visible throughout the conference.
During the late half of our session, we will actively search for
and document biodiversity, using iNaturalist. We will then
reconvene and go over our finds.
(5) Galápagos 2015: Science, Conservation, and History in the 180 Years Since Darwin. Organizer: Matthew
J. James (Department of Geology, Sonoma State University,
Rohnert Park, CA; [email protected]).
Three day program scheduled for Monday, Tuesday, and
Wednesday, 15, 16, and 17 June.
2015 marks the 180th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s
visit to Galápagos on HMS Beagle in 1835. It also marks
the 110th anniversary of the highly successful 1905-06
scientific collecting expedition from the California Academy
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of Sciences. Considerable new information about science,
conservation, and history in the Galápagos Islands has
appeared in recent years, and this symposium will provide a
venue for an international audience to meet and discuss those
advances from previous AAASPD Galápagos symposia in
San Francisco in 1999 and 2009. In addition, attendees will
have an opportunity to conduct specimen-based research,
either before or after the symposium, on the zoological and
botanical collections from Galápagos housed at the California
Academy of Sciences.
(6) Web of Causation: Using Multiple Perspectives to
Study Local Health Disparities. Organizer: Leticia MárquezMagaña (Department of Biology, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA; [email protected]). Co-organizer:
Kirsten Bibbens-Domingo (Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology, and Biostatistics, Center for Vulnerable Populations, San
Francisco, CA; [email protected]).
Half day program scheduled for Tuesday afternoon, 16 June.
The overall goal of the proposed program is to increase
understanding of local health disparities and how disparities
affecting youth are being investigated. The program
will open with a panel presentation by local youth who
will engage the audience with their first-hand accounts
of how health disparities affect their everyday lives and
communities. Following the panel presentation, Dr. Aragón
will guide the audience in exploring local health disparities
by describing the results of epidemiological studies of San
Francisco (SF) neighborhoods. These results provide the
rationale for research questions that must be solved in order
to achieve health equity in these neighborhoods. To answer
these questions, Dr. Márquez-Magaña will describe student
training efforts based at SF State and UCSF that comprise
the SF BUILD program. For example, BUILD scholars will
participate in ongoing multidisciplinary studies to investigate
local health disparities in asthma incidence among young
adults. The results of these on-going studies will be
presented by Dr. Burchard. His presentation on studies
of asthma disparities in youth will be followed by a more
comprehensive presentation of health disparities found in SF
minority youth by Dr. Bibbins-Domingo. She will end the
program by linking health disparities found for SF youth to
disparities found in the city’s adult populations.
(7) Ecological and Evolutionary Factors Driving the
Emergence and Re-emergence of Vector-borne Diseases.
Organizer: Andrea Swei (San Francisco State University, San
Francisco, CA; [email protected]).
Half day program scheduled for Wednesday morning, 17 June.
Vector-borne diseases constitute a high percentage of the
emerging infectious diseases that affect animals, plants, and
humans. The factors that drive emergence are manifold and
include globalization, land use changes, pesticide-resistance,
changes in public health policy and infrastructure, and
genetic mutations in pathogens. By definition, vector-borne
disease systems involve at least three species: the pathogen,
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the vector, and the host species. In many cases there are
multiple host species involved in the transmission cycle of
the pathogen. Vectored pathogens are also unique because
arthropod vectors often have close host relationships and are
highly sensitive to changing environmental conditions. These
factors make vector-borne disease systems highly sensitive
to changing abiotic and biotic conditions such as climate
change and shifts in host diversity. Whereas vector control
was effective at controlling diseases like yellow fever in the
early 20th century, recent decades have seen a resurgence
and emergence of many vector-borne diseases. This panel
will address some of the reasons behind recent vector-borne
diseases’ emergence as a global public health problem and
better understand and predict the future of vector-borne
diseases.
(8) Advancing the Forensic Psychological Research Nexus
Between Antiterrorism, Extremism, and Violence Against
Police: A Lone Wolf Terrorist Perspective. Organizer:
Ronn Johnson (Clinical Mental Health Program, School of
Leadership and Education Sciences, University of San Diego, San Diego, CA; [email protected]).
Half day program scheduled for Monday morning, 15 June.
Internationally, violent extremism impacts the lives of
everyday people. For example, at least 145 Pakistani children
were massacred one by one at school by Taliban extremists.
One of the teachers was doused with gasoline and set on fire in
front of students. Forensic research on police and other public
safety personnel can be often used to assist with decisions
that are designed to protect citizens from violent extremists.
Police officers themselves have been victims of random acts
of violence that may also be assessed as lone wolf terrorism
(LWT). Citizens, forensic psychologists and law enforcement
authorities are seeking ways to understand, predict, and work
to proactively respond to violent extremism. As a result,
clinical mental health professionals are frequently involved
in a key role during prevention, assessment and intervention
efforts as part of a multidisciplinary team. At a minimum,
the role and responsibilities of a mental health professional
by default requires advanced clinical skills, knowledge of
the criminal justice system, as well as competencies in order
to appropriately respond to cultural, ethical and the science
based issues found in the various LWT cases. For example, are
there forensic mental health standards for threat assessment
practices that might be sufficient to compel police and public
safety personnel to consider in their potential actions? Two
New York City police officers were shot at point blank range
as they sat in their patrol car. A small group of officers walking
their beat were also attacked by an axe wielding assailant.
One woman was decapitated by a radicalized coworker who
had reportedly internalized violent extremism views via the
internet. Correctional officers are quite concerned about the
radicalization pathways for inmates.
This forensic mental health science symposium presents
an empirically based conceptual framework on the issues
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that surround forensic practices in Lone Wolf Terrorism
(LWT) cases. The symposium uses five paper presentations
as a platform to examine several research factors related to
LWT and violent extremism. A question and answer period
follows a counter-point discussion of each paper presented.
The presentations offer more informative questions than
answers relative to the mindset of a terrorist. An internalized
homeland security directive to "think like a terrorist" is
instructive for antiterrorism efforts. What is lacking, however,
is a clearer understanding of the motives behind strategic
options extremists are exercising and possible antiterrorism
responses. Effective counterstrategies are difficult to craft
without understanding the logic that fuels acts of violent
extremism. The presenters provide advice on ways a research
based assessment may be employed as a means of organizing
knowledge or disaggregating a largely new behavioral
frontier of LWT, violent extremism and violence against
police. The five forensic psychology research paper topics
are expected to include:
• Forensic Psychology in Evaluating a Lone Wolf Terrorist: An Analysis of the New York City Cop Killer
• A forensic psychological analysis of violence against police officers
• Self-radicalization and the on-line violent extremist’s use
of the internet in the recruitment of lone wolf terrorists
• The public’s role in antiterrorism aimed at violent extremism
• Forensic psychological risk assessment for online violent extremists
(9) Research-Based Cultural Bridges Aimed at Reducing
Fear and Building Trustworthy Public Safety Relationships Between Racially Diverse Communities and Police
Departments: A Forensic Psychological Paradigm. Organizer: Ronn Johnson (Clinical Mental Health Program,
School of Leadership and Education Sciences, University of
San Diego, San Diego, CA; [email protected]).
Half day program scheduled for Monday afternoon, 15 June.
The year 2014 was marred by a series of high profile
deaths in the community. Several unarmed Black males were
killed during scene management situations involving White
police officers. Police officers were executed while on duty.
As a result, relations between the community and police are
significantly strained by these killings. Moreover, under these
same divisive community circumstances a universally shared
goal of public safety is threatened through a combination of
reflexive finger pointing and a pervasive lack of trust both
in the criminal justice system and the police. Police report
a perceived lack of support for the stressful cross-racial
demands of a job that, by default, can result in split second
life and death decisions. From a forensic psychological
perspective, these frayed relationships between community
and police can also function as a climate that is ripe for
terrorism. The post-incident blame rhetoric present on both
sides of these issues was extremely hostile in the aftermath
of the aforementioned killings. In fact, tensions are so high
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that it would not take much calculated creativity or resources
for any self-appointed terrorist to ignite a community into
violent protests and a predictable militarized police presence.
For example, the reported mentally ill man who killed the
two New York City police officers had earlier posted ominous
comments on social media that essentially broadcasted what
he intended to do (e.g., “I am putting wings on pigs today.”)
in what he claimed to be retribution for the death of a Black
man while being taken into police custody. Fear and a strong
desire for public safety are two desired outcomes that are
shared between every community as well as police officers.
For example, in the cases where lethal force was used in the
above cases, the involved officers claimed that they feared
for their lives. People who reside in many communities
throughout the United States also fear for their lives and want
public safety. Fear reduction and ethnoracially trustworthy
public safety are reasonable expectations that can be used
in strengthening collaborative community-police relations.
These shared outcomes do not preclude the community and
police departments from independently or separately taking
steps that are designed to enhance the capacity for building
a stronger cultural bridge between them. The overall goal
for relations between community and police is to provide a
framework that promotes an idea that the current relationship
status between community and police is unacceptable when
it comes to reducing fear and achieving public safety. To
achieve this goal, the symposium is expected to consist of
five forensic psychology research papers that include:
• Group Treatment and Psychopathology: Building Community Capacity via Culturally Responsive Mental
Health Services
• Procedural justice theory around legitimacy and public
confidence in relationships between community and police
• Black and brown level of satisfaction perceptions and building positive community connections to police departments
• Relations between community and police: A Muslim
perspective
• Collaboration and diverse citizen participation in police
conduct review boards
(10) Biodiversity Science and Sustainability at the California Academy of Sciences. Organizer: Durrell D. Kapan
(Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Biodiversity Science
and Sustainability, California Academy of Sciences, San
Francisco, CA; [email protected]). Co-organizer: Margaret (Meg) Lowman (Chief of Science and Sustainability,
Harry and Diana Hind Dean of Science and Research Collections, and Lindsay Chair of Botany, Institute for Biodiversity
Science and Sustainability, California Academy of Sciences,
San Francisco, CA; [email protected].
Half day program scheduled for Monday morning, 15 June.
The mission of the California Academy of Sciences is
to explore, explain and ultimately sustain life's diversity.
Scientists at the Academy's Institute for Biodiversity
Science and Sustainability work at the interface between
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biodiversity and sustainability studying Earth's diverse
and imperiled plants, animals and critical habitats. Our
new citizen science platform, iNaturalist, accelerates the
acquisition of biodiversity data at the same time as inspiring
the appreciation of the diversity of life on earth. We explore
how loss of diversity poses threats to wildlife or human
health through invasive species or infectious diseases and
also how human-associated species and human diversity
itself connect us with our place in nature. During CAS
expeditions and research we empower stakeholders to
explore, explain and sustain their own natural environments
in order to amplify the reach of our in-house experts to
answer the most pressing scientific questions, but also to
model the science and art behind translating biodiversity
research into sustainability.
(11) Blue Carbon and Global Change: Mechanisms, Modeling, Management. Organizer: Tomoko Komada (Romburg
Tiburon Center, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA; [email protected]). Co-organizer: Lisamarie
Wyndham-Myers (U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA;
[email protected]).
Half day program scheduled for Tuesday afternoon, 16 June.
Near-shore habitats such as wetlands and salt marshes
are highly productive ecosystems that play significant roles
in regional and global carbon cycles. These systems have
received increasing attention in the past few years due to
their potential to function as net sinks for atmospheric CO2.
While significant advances have been made in quantifying
the rates of organic-matter accretion in these systems, many
questions still remain unanswered, including: What are the
main environmental factors that control accretion of total
organic matter? What controls the accretion of autochthonous
versus allochthonous organic carbon? What are the near- and
long-term fates of sequestered organic carbon, and how are
they affected under different environmental conditions?
This symposium will address these and related questions to
explore the role of near-shore systems in San Francisco Bay
and other systems within the context of global change.
(12) Advancing Green Infrastructure for Habitat and
Coastal Resilience. Organizer: Kathy Boyer (Romburg Tiburon Center, San Francisco State University, Tiburon, CA;
[email protected]). Co-organizer: Mike Vasey (U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA; [email protected]).
Half day program scheduled for Tuesday morning, 16 June.
Climate-related threats to coastal environments (e.g., rapid
sea-level rise and extreme flood events) have emerged as a
defining issue of our day. This is particularly true for the San
Francisco Estuary (SFE) where the information-technology
economy of Northern California, poor at-risk communities,
and vital transportation and water treatment structures are
vulnerable. This prospect has mobilized the scientific and
management community to explore alternative approaches to
shoreline resilience by restoring “green infrastructure” (e.g.
tidal wetlands, oyster reefs, and eelgrass) as an alternative
to “grey” solutions such as concrete seawalls. Further, green
infrastructure solutions could both protect our substantial
investment in tidal wetland restoration as well as contribute
to the ecological health of the SFE. These circumstances
have stimulated a burst of innovative thinking and advances
in green infrastructure planning and pilot projects within the
SFE region that are testing this concept.
In this symposium, five experts involved in the SFE greeninfrastructure movement provide short presentations that
illustrate examples of this new technology and its potential
for not only contributing to shoreline resilience but also
to the recovery of the ecology of the SFE. This panel will
then encourage a conversation with the audience concerning
the green infrastructure movement in general and specific
applications in the SFE in particular. A field visit to China
Camp State Park, a component of the San Francisco Bay
National Estuarine Research Reserve, will provide an
experiential component to this evolving applied science that
offers such promise and challenge for the SFE region.
(13) Recent Advances in Pharmacology and Toxicology.
Organizers: Kristen Mitchell (Department of Biology, Boise
State University, Boise, Idaho; kristenmitchell@boisestate.
edu) and Karen Parker (Chrysopylae, Los Altos, CA).
Half day program scheduled for Tuesday afternoon, 16 June.
(14) Hot and Cool Bugs: Energetics and Thermal Tolerances of Insects in an Ecological Context. Organizer:
Johnathon Stillman (Romburg Tiburon Center and Department of Biology, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA; [email protected]). Co-organizer: Caroline Williams (Department of Integrative Biology, University of
California, Berkeley, CA; [email protected]).
Half day program scheduled for Wednesday morning, 17
June.
This program addresses studies that examine thermal
physiology of insects in an ecological context. Studies
presented are geared towards understanding thermal tolerance
limits and thermal sensitivity on metabolic energetics,
habitat temperature and life history strategy, and on thermal
adaptations to local microhabitat variation across relatively
small spatial scales.
(15) Biodiversity of the Coral Triangle. Organizer: Terrence Gosliner (Department of Invertebrate Zoology, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA; tgosliner@
calacademy.org). Co-organizers: Rich Mooi (Department of
Invertebrate Zoology, California Academy of Sciences, San
Francisco, CA; [email protected] and Meg Burke (Director of Teacher and Youth Education, California Academy
of Sciences, San Francisco, CA; [email protected]).
Full day program scheduled for Tuesday, 16 June.
The Verde Island Passage of the Philippines is inhabited
by the richest marine biota of anywhere in the oceans.
Understanding the species diversity and distributional patterns
of the marine biota are critical to developing conservation
strategies for the Coral Triangle Region, and more specifically
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within the Verde Island Passage. Fundamental knowledge is
rapidly being assembled to produce a more comprehensive
picture of the overall richness of marine diversity patterns
for the region and how it is distributed. Also critical to the
success of rapidly converting this information into effective
conservation strategies are the creation of community
awareness in the region and the formation effective
partnerships with conservation and governmental partners.
This symposium focuses on the latest scientific discoveries
for the region and how those data can be rapidly converted
into effective outreach and conservation policies.
(16) Advances in Human Evolutionary Studies: The Fossil and Genetic Evidence. Organizer: Zeray Alemseged (Irvine Chair of Anthropology and Senior Chair, Institute for
Biodiversity Science and Sustainability, California Academy
of Sciences, San Francisco, CA; [email protected]).
Half day program scheduled for Wednesday morning, 17 June.
Establishing human biological evolutionary trajectory
is among the most exciting scientific endeavors. With the
proliferation of fossil discoveries and dramatic progress
made in genomics, we have made major progress in
our understanding of the history of our species. In this
symposium, latest advances in the field of human evolution
will be discussed based on the fossil record and genetic data.
(17) Theory, Experiment, and Computations: A Synergistic
Approach to Research. Organizer: C. Mark Maupin
(Chemical and Biological Engineering Department, Colorado
School of Mines, Golden, CO; [email protected]).
Half day program scheduled for Tuesday morning, 16 June.
The utilization of theory and computations to
complement and sometimes lead (i.e. theory driven research)
experimental efforts is becoming increasingly common.
The synergistic combination of experiment, theory, and
computations has allowed for a greater understanding of
many physical phenomena. The structural information
obtained from various techniques such as X-ray and NMR
is often critical to the creation of realistic models for
computations, while theory and computations often reveal
molecular level insights into catalytic mechanisms, binding
phenomena, and system dynamics. This symposium is
focused on the combination of experiment and theory/
computations to expand our understanding of diverse
systems ranging from gas phase reactions to complex
condensed phase systems.
(18) 3D Printing, Arduinos and other Open Source Tech
in STEAM Learning. Organizers: Joan Horvath and Rich
Cameron (Nonscriptum LLC, 155 N. Lake Ave., Suite 800,
Pasadena CA 91101; [email protected], [email protected]).
Half day program, scheduled for Tuesday afternoon, 16 June.
Shop class was traditionally a gateway into engineering,
math, science, art and other fields, but many schools got rid
of shop class because of perceived lack of student interest
and concerns over liability. However, as shop classes have
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been fading away, there has been a resurgence of interest in
making things. This interest is exemplified by the enormous
success of “maker” type public events and the proliferation of
makerspaces and hackerspaces. Could this mean that people
are still interested in shop class, but a more modern version,
incorporating 3D printing, Arduinos, wearable technologies,
and the like?
But what is involved in using these technologies (like
3D printing, Arduino microprocessors, and wearable
technologies) in the classroom? This session will describe the
experiences of some early adopters, the cultural issues that
arise when crossing over formal education and the hacker
culture, and ways forward for educational institutions wanting
to learn more about using these technologies for low-cost yet
powerful applications in robotics, citizen science, concept
visualization and more.
Contributed Papers
Those wishing to submit papers for presentation at a contributed paper session (oral or poster) should refer to the instructions for abstract preparation and submission on pages
16ff. of this Newsletter
The deadline for submitting abstracts for contributed
papers (non-symposium) is Friday, 24 April 2015. If an
abstract comes in after this date, it may not be listed in the
program. Also, be aware that the abstract you submit will be
published as written. It will not be edited. If it contains errors,
they will appear as submitted. Be sure to keep the length of
your abstract to no more than 250 words and use 10-point
Times New Roman font (no exotic fonts, please!). Don’t forget
to state clearly if yours is a student presentation so that it will
be included in the judging competition. Please remember
that if you are a student who intends to be in the competition
for an Award of Excellence and you are part of a symposium
with your presentation scheduled on Tuesday afternoon or
Wednesday (check with the planner of your symposium), you
must also present your work as a poster in order to be judged.
Otherwise, you will not be eligible for student awards due to
the conclusion of judging early Tuesday afternoon. Awards
will be announced later that evening at the banquet.
Poster Sessions
Posters will be assigned a display space of 48” tall x 48” wide
(1.2 m x 1.2 m) and will be grouped by discipline and subject
matter. Posters will be mounted on foam core backings (supplied) using map pins (also supplied). In order to assure fairness, the Pacific Division Council took action stating that all
student posters must fit within the assigned display space to
be eligible for student Awards of Excellence. The use of extra
space or an over-sized poster will disqualify a student from
the awards competition.
Student posters will be judged to receive Awards of
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Excellence. Students must be present during the entire
judging period to allow judges the opportunity to discuss
their work and to evaluate their posters.
If you need a bit of help organizing the content of your
poster, a website containing excellent information on poster
preparation is http://www.ncsu.edu/project/posters.
Societies and Pacific Division Sections
Accepting Contributed Papers for
Presentation at the Meetings
Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society. Please
submit your abstract to the appropriate section from this list.
Agriculture, Food, and Renewable Resources. Section
chair and program organizer: Please contact the Pacific Division
office, [email protected], for information on this section.
Anthropology and Archaeology. Section chair and
program organizer: Chair: Dr. Sang-Hee Lee, Department
of Anthropology, University of California Riverside, 900
University Avenue, Riverside, CA 92521. Contact: 951-8274390; [email protected].
Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Sciences. Section
chair and program organizer: Dr. Clive E. Dorman, Research
Oceanographer, Integrative Oceanography Division, Scripps
Institution of Oceanography Dept 0209, University of
California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0209. Contact:
[email protected].
Cell and Molecular Biology (including Medical and
Dental research in these areas). Section chair and program
organizer: Dr. Kristen Mitchell, Department of Biology,
Boise State University, Boise, ID 83725. Contact: 208-4264620; [email protected].
Chemistry and Biochemistry. Section chair and program
organizer: Dr. Owen M. McDougal, Department of Chemistry
and Biochemistry, Boise State University, Boise, ID 83725.
Contact: 208-426-3964; [email protected].
Computer and Information Sciences. Section chair
and program organizer: Dr. C. Mark Maupin, Department
of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Colorado School
of Mines, Golden, CO 80401. Contact: 303-273-3720;
[email protected].
Earth Sciences. Section chair and program organizer: Dr.
Jad D’Allura, Department of Geology (emeritus), Southern
Oregon University, Ashland, OR 97520. Contact: 541-8997010; [email protected] and [email protected] (copy
e-mail to both accounts).
Ecology, Environmental Sciences, and Sustainability.
Section chair and program organizer: Dr. Richard Van
Buskirk, Environmental Studies, Pacific University, 2043
College Way, Forest Grove, OR 97116. Contact: 503-3522251; [email protected].
Education. Section chair and program organizer: Dr.
Louis Nadelson, School of Education and Leadership, Utah
State University, 2605 Old Main Hill, Logan, UT 84322.
Contact: 435-797-7697; [email protected].
Engineering, Technology and Applied Sciences. Section
chair and program organizer: Dr. Frank Jacobitz, Department
of Engineering, University of San Diego, 5998 Alcalá Park, San
Diego, CA 92110. Contact: 619-260-7820; [email protected].
Evolution, Organismal Biology, and Biodiversity. Section
chair and program organizer: Dr. Julia Ruppell, Department of
Biology, Pacific University, 2043 College Way, Forest Grove,
OR 97116. Contact: 503-352-3102; [email protected].
General and Interdisciplinary. Section chair and
program organizer: Ms. Crystal Goldman, UC San Diego
Library, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman
Drive #175Q, La Jolla, CA 92093. Contact: 858-2461626; [email protected].
History and Philosophy of Science. Section chair and program
organizer: Dr. Donald McGraw, P.O. Box 515, Ephraim, UT 84627.
Contact: 619-947-5108; [email protected].
Materials Science. Section chair and program organizer: Dr.
George Quainoo, Department of Physics and Engineering,
Southern Oregon University, 1250 Siskiyou Blvd, Ashland,
OR 97520. Contact: 541-552-6404; [email protected]
Section co-chair: Dr. Vilupanur Ravi, Department of Chemical
and Materials Engineering, California Polytechnic University,
Pomona, 3801 W. Temple Avenue, Pomona, CA 91768.
Contact: 909-869-2627 [email protected].
Mathematics. Section chair and program organizer: Dr. Liljana
Babinkostova, Department of Mathematics, Boise State University,
1910 University Drive, Boise, ID 83725. Contact: 208-426-1172;
[email protected].
Physics. Section chair and program organizer: Dr. Ellen
Siem, Department of Physics and Engineering, Southern
Oregon University, 1250 Siskiyou Blvd., Ashland, OR 97520.
Colntact: 541-552-6489; [email protected].
Psychology. Section chair and program organizer: Dr.
Veronica Galván, Department of Psychology, University of
San Diego, San Diego, CA 92110. Contact: 619-260-7739;
[email protected].
Science and the Arts and Humanities. Section chair and
program organizer: Dr. Robert L. Chianese, Department of
English, California State University, Northridge, Northridge,
CA 91330; Current Contact Information: 2465 Hall Canyon
Road, Ventura, CA 93001, 805-643-5034; rlchianese@gmail.
com.
Social, Economic and Political Sciences (including
Health Services). Section chair and program organizer: Dr.
Carl A. Maida, UCLA Schools of Dentistry and Medicine,
University of California, PO Box 951668 CHS, Los Angeles,
CA 90095. Contact: 805-492-5613; [email protected]. J
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96th Annual Meeting
San Francisco, California
14 – 17 June 2015
Last Call for Abstracts
Members of AAAS and its affiliated societies, students, teachers and other scientists are encouraged to participate in the annual meeting of
the Pacific Division of AAAS by presenting papers and/or posters. Procedures for submitting abstracts for inclusion in the technical sessions of this
meeting are presented in brief below and in full on page 16 of this Newsletter. Read both carefully before submitting an abstract!
For a contributed paper, e-mail the title, abstract and other required information (see instructions below and also on page 16 of this Newsletter) as a Word (.doc or .docx) or .rtf attachment to the chair of the appropriate society or section (see page 31 of this Call for Papers and Abstracts)
and also the Pacific Division office at [email protected]. If your abstract contains special characters, fax a copy of it with the special characters
marked and the name of the typeface used to the Pacific Division office, 541-552-8457, in addition to the e-mail submission. The deadline for contributed paper abstract submissions is 18 April 2015. Students wanting to compete for an Award of Excellence must identify themselves as such
on Line 7 of their abstract submissions so that judges will know to evaluate their presentations.
Presenters in symposia should submit their abstracts directly to the symposium planner. The deadline for symposium abstracts is 1 April 2015.
Oral contributed papers are scheduled every 20 minutes, allowing about 14 minutes for the talk, about five minutes for questions at the end, and
a minute or so for PowerPoint change-over. If you are presenting in a symposium, please contact the symposium organizer for presentation details.
Organize your submission as follows:
Line 1: Submitter’s name
Line 2: Submitter’s telephone number and e-mail address
Line 3: Presenter’s name (if different from above) or “SAME” (if same as above)
Line 4: Presenter’s telephone number and e-mail address (if different from above)
Line 5: Society, section or program to which you are submitting your presentation for review (see page 31 of this Newsletter).
Note: you must send your abstract to a section or program chair as well as the AAASPD office (see above). If you are presenting in a
symposium, send your abstract directly to the symposium planner as well as the AAASPD office.
Line 6: Type of presentation (ORAL or POSTER)
Line 7: Is the presenter a student? (STUDENT or NOT A STUDENT)
Line 8: Special equipment needs (in addition to standard computer, computer projector, and PowerPoint)
Line 9 ff: Paper Title Italicized and in Title Case, AUTHOR’S NAME(S) (Full address(es), including institution, mailing address, city,
state, zip code, and e-mail address(es)). Refer to the example below for additional information.
Line 10 ff: Text of abstract. Limit: 250 words.
Example of a properly formatted abstract submission (lines 9 ff and 10 ff), plus additional information
Formatting an Abstract for Submission to a Pacific Division Section Chair and the AAASPD Meetings Office, SAMUEL P KRAFTER1*, YESIMAN AUTHOR1, and IDIDA DeREADING2 (1Department of Biology, Southern Oregon University, 1250 Siskiyou
Boulevard, Ashland, OR 97520; 2Department of Academic Speech, Bureau of Speech Employment, 12 Back Street, Medford, OR
97504; [email protected]).
All authors should be listed sequentially, starting with the person who contributed the most and ending with the person who
contributed the least. If more than one address occurs among the authors, use a superscripted number on the right of each author’s last
name, followed by the corresponding superscripted number at the start of each unique address. Place an asterisk (*) next to the last
name of the presenter. Submissions not formatted in this manner may be returned for reformatting or rejected.
Indent the first line of each paragraph of your abstract (Line 10 ff) 0.25 inches by using the first line indent command of your
word processor. Do not use the tab or the spacebar! All text should be full justified.
Use 10 pt Times New Roman font and “NORMAL” style. If you use a different font, your abstract will be reformatted to this font.
If your text contains special characters, they probably won’t accurately survive e-mailing and/or any required reformatting. Thus, in
addition to an e-mail submission, abstracts that contain special characters should be faxed (541-552-8457) or mailed to the AAASPD
office (AAAS Pacific Division, Southern Oregon University, 1250 Siskiyou Blvd., Ashland, OR 97520). Be sure to point out special
characters in your abstract and identify the font set that contains them. If exotic fonts are used, we probably won’t have them available,
so use common font sets (e.g. Symbol, Wingdings, etc.) for your special characters!
Send your abstract as a Word (.doc or .docx) or rich text format (.rtf) file attached to an e-mail addressed to the appropriate section chair (see Line 5 above) and also the AAASPD office at [email protected]. Do not send your abstract in the body of an e-mail
or as a PDF file as these will be rejected!
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97th Annual Meeting
University of San Diego
San Diego, California
14 – 17 June 2016
Call for Symposium and Workshop Proposals
Members of AAAS and its affiliated societies, students, teachers and other scientists are encouraged to participate in
the 2016 annual meeting by developing symposia and/or workshops. Persons wishing to develop a program for the San
Diego meeting should e-mail the title, description and other information (see instructions below) to the Pacific Division
office at [email protected].
Symposia may be 1/2-day, full-day or longer. Individual symposium presentations are scheduled at 30 minute intervals.
Exceptions, depending on the needs of the symposium, may be longer, shorter, or even a combination of the two. Please
contact Dr. Roger Christianson, Pacific Division Executive Director, to discuss your specific needs. When preparing your
submission, indicate which presenters are confirmed and which are not (see Line 10 below). If you do not yet have a list of
presenters, you may submit a list of potential presentation topics. Please keep in mind that we need as much information
as early as possible in order to adequately evaluate and publicize the symposium. Abstracts for symposium presentations
are due into the planner's hands by 1 April and sent as a batch to the Pacific Division office by 8 April.
Workshops generally are 1/2-day or full-day and may or may not accompany a symposium. If special facilities and/or
equipment are required, be sure to identify what you need as completely as possible in your submission (see Line 10 below). If
a cost is incurred, it will be passed along to participants as a workshop fee in addition to the ordinary meeting registration fee.
Questions? Contact Dr. Roger Christianson, AAAS Pacific Division, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR
97520. Phone: 541-552-6747; e-mail: [email protected].
Please organize your proposal as follows:
Organizer’s name
Organizer’s full mailing address, including academic/professional affiliation, telephone number and e-mail address
Co-organizer’s name(s) (if any)
Co-organizer’s full mailing address, including academic/professional affiliation, telephone number and e-mail address
Is this a Workshop or a Symposium?
Title of proposed program
Brief description of proposed program (please limit to 250 words)
If a symposium, list the names of proposed (confirmed?) speakers, including academic/professional affiliation, and e-mail address
for each. Presentation titles are optional at this time and will be requested later, along with an abstract for each presentation.
If a workshop, indicate facilities and/or special equipment required and number of participants that can be accommodated.
9: Number of 1/2-day sessions requested (a session is roughly three to three and a half hours, plus a mid-session break).
10:Pacific Division section(s) and/or affiliated society requested to sponsor this program (see page 31 of this
Newsletter). Note: You must identify at least one section or society to sponsor your program.
11:If a symposium, do you anticipate having students make presentations as part of your program? If so, how many?
12:Do you have a need for a particular day for your program? If so, please rank the days 1 to 3, with 1 being your first
choice and 3 being last choice (Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday) and explain.
1:
2:
3:
4:
5:
6:
7:
8:
541-552-6747 • [email protected] • http://pacific.aaas.org
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AAAS, Pacific Division 96th Annual Meeting
SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY
ON-CAMPUS HOUSING APPLICATION
One form must be submitted for each individual requesting campus housing.
Type or print this form legibly! If faxing, use black ink. All blanks must be filled in.
Name ___________________________________________________________________________ o Male
o Female
Address _______________________________________________________________________________________________
City, State, Zip __________________________________________________________________________________________
Phone (day):___________________ Phone (evening):______________________ E-mail: _____________________________
For double occupancy: name of requested roommate ________________________________________ or o assign roommate
For double occupancy, if no roommate specified, roommate will be assigned.
Refer to page 13 of this Newsletter for a description of the accommodations and options listed below.
No refunds will be given for unused nights of stay or meals.
Key to meals: B = breakfast L = lunch D = dinner
Housing Request:
Three night basic housing package –
Check in Sunday, 14 June, check out Wednesday, 17 June
Includes D Sun.; BLD Mon and Tues; BL Wed.
o Single, per person $385.00
o Double, per person $250.00
Four night basic housing package –
Check in Sunday, 14 June; check out Thursday, 18 June
Includes D Sun; BLD Mon, Tues, and Wed; BL Thurs.
o Single, per person $510.00
o Double, per person $330.00
Additional nights must be in conjunction with a three or four
night basic package. They include breakfast each morning.
Single, per person
Double, per person
$113.00 per night
$67.00 per night
Deadline for Application
The completed application for housing must be received in the Pacific Division office no later than 15 May 2015. Space is on an “as
available” basis.
Three Ways to Apply for Housing
1. Complete this form and send it to the Pacific Division office, either with a check in the full amount payable to AAAS, Pacific Division, or with credit card information completed below.
2. Call the Pacific Division office, 541-552-6869, between approximately 12:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. Pacific Time. Your information
will be taken, along with the appropriate credit card information.
3. Fax your housing request, including credit card information. The
24-hour fax number is 541-552-8457. It is a dedicated line into the
Pacific Division office.
Cancellation/refund Policy
All cancellation/refund requests for housing must be made in writing to the Pacific Division office via USPS or e-mail. Requests must
be received no later than 15 May 2015. Refunds are subject to a $15
processing charge and an additional 3.5% of the total if payment
was by credit card.
o Friday, 12 June
o Saturday, 13 June
o Thursday, 18 June
o Friday, 19 June
o Saturday, 20 June
Total Amount$ ___________
Payment by Credit Card
Type of Card o Visa o Master Card o Discover o Am Ex
Card Number __________________________________________ Expiration Date ___________ Today’s Date ___________
Name on
Card (print) ____________________________________________ Complete Card Billing
Address ________________________________________
Cardholder
Signature _____________________________________________ City ______________________ State _____ Zip ________
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AAAS, Pacific Division 96th ANNUAL MEETING
San Francisco, California
14 – 17June 2015
ADVANCE REGISTRATION FORM
FOR EARLY REGISTRATION, FIELD TRIPS, and OTHER SPECIAL EVENTS
Send this form directly to
AAAS, Pacific Division • Southern Oregon University • 1250 Siskiyou Blvd • Ashland, OR 97520
or call with information: 541-552-6869 or FAX to our dedicated line: 541-552-8457
PRINT CLEARLY or TYPE this form. If faxing, use black ink!
Name: _____________________________________________________________ Date: _____________________
Mailing Address: __________________________________________________________________________________
City, State, Zip: ___________________________________________________________________________________
E-mail: _____________________________________________ Day Phone: _______________________________
Institution/Company (for your name tag – if blank, city & state will be used): ________________________________________
Memberships: AAAS o Yes o No
Sigma Xi o Yes o No
Other Affiliated Society Membership: ________________________________________________________________
How did you first hear about this meeting? ____________________________________________________________
Would you be willing to help judge student presentations at this meeting? o Yes o No
Please see page 4 of this Newsletter for information about judging. If you check the “yes” box, you will be contacted for additional information.
Check any that apply: o presenter o program planner o field trip planner
If box checked above, in which program, field trip, or section? _________________________________________
(above must be filled out in order to receive program planner/presenter rate)
A. MEETING REGISTRATION FEES:
Received by Received by
Full Meeting
24 April
29 May
Professional
o $105.00 o $120.00
Presenter/Planner o $70.00 o $80.00
Teacher K-14
o $52.50 o $60.00
Post-Doc
o $52.50 o $60.00
Student1
o $52.50 o $60.00
Unemployed
o $52.50 o $60.00
Spouse/Family
o $35.00 o $40.00
Emeritus/Retired
o $52.50 o $60.00
On-site
o $135.00
o $90.00
o $67.50  Request teacher K-14 stipend? o Yes o No
o $67.50
o $67.50
o $67.50
o $45.00  Name, City , State (for name tag): ___________________
o $67.50
__________________________________
Student registrations include a one-year student membership with AAAS, including on-line access to Science magazine. Be sure to fill out
and include the membership form on page 37 of this Newsletter when you register for the meeting.
1
One-day of Meeting
Professional
Field Trip Only
o $70.00
o $10.00
o $80.00
o $10.00
o $90.00  Select day: o Tues o Wed o Thurs o Fri
o $10.00
B. DIVISION BANQUET: The Division banquet will be held on the evening of Tuesday, 16 June and will include announcements of
the student award winners. Students who are registered for the meeting and who present either orally or a poster are invited to be guests
of the Division at the banquet and do not have to pay to attend but must check the appropriate box below. Refer to page 18 in this
Newsletter for descriptions of the entrées.
Student presenter ticket @ no charge (choose one): o Halibut–oGF*
o Tri Tip–oGF*
o Vegan–oGF*
Tickets @ $40.00 ea. Indicate quantity next to each choice: ___ Halibut–oGF*
___ Tri Tip–oGF*
___ Vegan–oGF*
*Gluten free? If so, check the “GF” box next to each entrée that you have chosen that you want to be GF.
Everyone complete next page before sending, calling, or faxing form.
Students, complete third page in order to receive your AAAS membership!
Visit us at http://pacific.aaas.org
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C. FIELD TRIPS: All trips are priced per person (pp). See page 21 of this Newsletter for details.
Box lunch choice:
o meat sandwich
o vegetarian sandwich
Sunday, 14 June
Field Trip #1
Natural History of Marin County
___ tickets @ $50.00 pp
$ ____________
Field Trip #2
___ tickets @ $50.00 pp
$ ____________
Plants and Plant Chemistry at the
Regional Parks Botanic Garden, Berkeley
Thursday, 18 June
Field Trip #3
Tiburon Uplands to the Romberg Tiburon
Center on San Francisco Bay
___ tickets @ $55.00 pp
$ ____________
Field Trip #4
A Visit to China Camp State Park
___ tickets @ $55.00 pp
$ ____________
PLEASE NOTE: Requests for refunds must
be in writing and be received in the Pacific
Division office no later than 15 May 2015.
A $15 handling fee will be applied. An
additional 3.5% deduction will be applied to
the total amount for credit card refunds.
A. Registration Total
$ ____________
B. Banquet Total
$ ____________
C. Field Trips Total
$ ____________
TOTAL DUE $ ____________
(Make checks payable to AAAS, Pacific Division
or use your credit card – see below.)
D. RECEPTIONS: To help estimate the number of people planning to participate in the events listed below, please indicate the number
of people in your party that plan to attend each.
___ Sunday Evening SFSU President’s Reception (no charge to registrants and family members)
___ Monday Evening at California Academy of Sciences (no charge to registrants and family members)
E. WORKSHOPS: To help estimate the number of people planning to participate in workshops, please indicate which, if any, of these
you intend to attend. See page 20 of this Newsletter for details.
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SUNDAY:
Saving Scientists from Themselves NOTE: Meets Sunday afternoon at the same time as the Whyville workshop
Whyville NOTE: Meets Sunday afternoon at the same time as the Saving Scientists from Themselves workshop.
MONDAY:
Communicating Your Science to Everyone Meets Monday morning.
Rethinking Design Strategies by Adopting Nature’s Principles Meets Monday afternoon
WEDNESDAY:
Introduction to Grant Writing Meets Wednesday morning.
CREDIT CARDS
To pay for your advance registration by credit card, you may
• mail this completed form to the address below, or
• phone the information to 541-552-6869 between about 12:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. Pacific Time, or
• fax this completed form to 541-552-8457 (dedicated fax line into the Pacific Division office).
Type of Card:
o Visa
o Master Card
o Discover
o AmEx
Credit Card Number _____________________________________________________ Expiration Date ________________________
Name on Card ________________________________________________________________________________________________
Complete Billing Address for Card ________________________________________________________________________________
Signature of Cardholder ___________________________________________________________ Date _________________________
COMPLETE AND RETURN THIS FORM WITH YOUR PAYMENT TO:
AAAS, Pacific Division • Southern Oregon University • 1250 Siskiyou Blvd • Ashland, OR 97520
Should you have questions, e-mail us at [email protected] or call 541-552-6869 M – F 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m., Pacific Time.
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STUDENTS!
Students must fill out this form and return it along with their Advance Registration Form in
order to receive their one-year membership in AAAS! This form is for use only by students who
are registering for the 2015 Annual Meeting of the AAAS, Pacific Division in San Francisco,
California.
Visit us at http://pacific.aaas.org
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Pacific Division Publications
wow!!!
B1G Book Giveaway
wow!!!
Select Up To Any Three Books Listed Below for FREE*1
With this form only – 1 offer per person • Giveaway ends 15 May 2015
*Does not apply to Art Inspired by Science.
1
Must pay standard shipping – see below.
Additional books at list prices.
Please PRINT CLEARLY or TYPE. If faxing, use black ink.
Agroecosystems and the Environment: Source, Control, and Remediation of Potentially Toxic, Trace Element Oxyanions (1998; cloth, 213 pp. – ISBN
0-934394-12-1); $20.00
Art Inspired by Science (2012; paper, 50 pp., 38 color plates – ISBN 978-0-9849810-0-7); $15.00
Biodiversity and Taxonomy (2005; paper, 236 pp. – ISBN 0940228-62-9); $35.00
Cracking Rocks and Defending Democracy: The Life and Times of Kirtley Fletcher Mather, 1888-1978 (1994; cloth, 342 pp., 39 photos – ISBN
0-934394-09-1); $31.95
Crater Lake: An Ecosystem Study (1990; cloth 224 pp. – ISBN 0-934394-07-5); $26.95
Dietary Factors and Birth Defects (1993; paper, 410 pp. – ISBN 0-934394-08-03); $28.50
Frontiers of Geological Exploration of Western North America (1982; paper, 248 pp – ISBN 0- 934394-03-2); $16.95
Genecology and Ecogeographic Races (1995; cloth, 275 pp. – ISBN 0-934394-10-5); $28.95
Late Cenozoic History of the Pacific Northwest (1985; cloth, 417 pp. – ISBN 0-934394-06-7); $28.95
Patterns of Evolution in Galapagos Organisms (1983; cloth, 568 pp. – ISBN 0-934394-05-9); $32.50
Museums and Other Institutions of Natural History: Past, Present, and Future (2004; paper, 325 pp. – ISBN 0-940228-60-2); $35.00
San Francisco Bay: The Ecosystem (1996; cloth, 542 pp., color plates – ISBN 0-934394-11-3); $45.00
San Francisco Bay: Use and Protection (1982; paper, 310 pp. – ISBN 0-934394-04-0); $17.95
Proceedings Series
Meeting Program with Abstracts (Proceedings Vol. 1, Part 1, 1982 through Vol. 33, Part 1, 2014); $12.00 each
Evolutionists Confront Creationists (Proceedings Vol. 1, Part 3, 1984; paper, 213 p.); $12.00
Scientific Research and New Religions (Proceedings Vol 2, Part 2, 1985, paper, 180 pp.); $12.00
California’s Master Plan for Higher Education in the Twenty-first Century (Proceedings, Vol 13, Part 2, 1996;
paper, 118 pp.); $12.00
Address orders to: AAAS, Pacific Division • Southern Oregon University • 1250 Siskiyou Blvd. • Ashland, OR 97520
Phone orders: 541-552-6869 • dedicated FAX orders: 541-552-8457 • E-mail orders: [email protected]
ALL SALES FINAL — NO RETURNS
Payment must accompany all orders. Make checks payable to AAAS, Pacific Division.
Quantity* Title
Price Each
Total
Attach
extra sheet if necessary.
*Maximum 3 of any one title.
Contact
us for quantity orders.
Shipping/handling fees:
Domestic, $3.50 first book; $1.50 each add’l.
Non-U.S. addresses, contact us for cost.
TOTAL
SHIPPING (see note to left)
TOTAL DUE WITH ORDER
Ship To: _________________________________________________________________ Date _______________________
Address _____________________________________________________________________________________________
City ________________________________________________ State _______________ Zip ______________________
Daytime Phone _________________________________________ e-mail ________________________________________
CREDIT CARD
o Visa
o Master Card
o Discover
o American Express
Credit Card # ________________________________________________________ Expiration Date__________________
Name on Card __________________________________ Signature of Cardholder _________________________________
Complete Billing Address for Card ________________________________________________________________________
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of Science, Pacific Division
Department of Biology
Southern Oregon University
1250 Siskiyou Boulevard
Ashland, OR 97520
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Permit No. 292
AAAS, Pacific Division
96th Annual Meeting
San Francisco State University
San Francisco, California
14 – 17 June 2015
ANNOUNCEMENT of SYMPOSIA,
FIELD TRIPS and OTHER EVENTS
SYMPOSIA
(complete list starts on page 24 of this Newsletter)
•Library Science: Theory and Practice of Librarianship
•3D Printing, Arduinos and other Open Source Tech in STEAM Learning
•Science from Citizen Science
•Galápagos 2015: Science, Conservation, and History in the 180
Years Since Darwin
•Web of Causation: Using Multiple Perspectives to Study Local
Health Disparities
•Advancing the Forensic Psychological Research Nexus Between
Antiterrorism, Extremism, and Violence Against Police: A Lone
Wolf Terrorist Perspective
•Biodiversity Science and Sustainability at the California Academy
of Sciences
•Advancing Green Infrastructure for Habitat and Coastal Resilience
•Hot and Cool Bugs: Energetics and Thermal Tolerances of Insects
in an Ecological Context
•Biodiversity of the Coral Triangle
•Advances in Human Evolutionary Studies: The Fossil and Genetic
Evidence
•Theory, Experiment, and Computation: A Synergistic Approach to
Research
FIELD TRIPS
(starting on page 21 of this Newsletter)
•Natural History of Marin County
•Plants and Plant Chemistry at the Regional Parks Botanic
Garden, Berkeley
•Tiburon Uplands to the Romberg Tiburon Center on San
Francisco Bay
•Back to the Future: A Visit to China Camp State Park
WORKSHOPS
(starting on page 20 of this Newsletter)
•Saving Scientists from Themselves
•Organizing the Whyville Association for the Advancement of
Science: How Would You Engage Millions of Tweens (78%
girls) in Science Advocacy Using a Virtual World?
Communicating Your Science to Everyone
Rethinking Design Strategies by Adopting Nature’s Principles
An Introduction to Grant-Writing for Foundations for Those
in the Sciences, Social Sciences, Education, and the Humanities
NOTE: These programs are being planned as of 1 April 2015. However, changes in offerings frequently
occur. For up-to-date information, please visit the Pacific Division website, pacific.aaas.org